Tillie Kidd Fowler graduated from Emory College in 1964 with a B.A. degree in political science and went on to earn her Emory law degree in 1967. She began her political career as a legislative assistant and served on the Jacksonville City Council before she was elected in 1992 by Florida's Fourth District to the U.S. House of Representatives. Fowler was re-elected without opposition in 1994 and 1996. She has served as a member of several House Republican committees and as deputy majority whip. At Emory, Fowler has been a member of the Association of Emory Alumni Board of Governors and the Alumni Leadership Committee.
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After Charles A. Harris earned a B.B.A. degree from Emory
in 1942, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in World War II, retiring
with the rank of major in 1946. Today, he owns A.S. Harris Department Store
in Ocilla, Georgia, and is president of the First State Bank of Ocilla.
Harris was the first non-lawyer member of the State Disciplinary Board and
later served as its vice chair. He was also elected to the State Department
Executive Committee and was appointed by Governor Jimmy Carter to the State
Board of Regents. He holds leadership positions with the State Literacy
Program and the Georgia Democratic Party and has served on the Emory Board
of Visitors and Alumni Council.
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Alicia Anne Philipp earned her B.A. degree in political science
from Emory in 1975 and received an M.B.A. degree from Georgia State University
in 1982. Since 1977, she has served as executive director of the Metropolitan
Atlanta Community Foundation (MACF), one of the largest and fastest-growing
community foundations in the nation. MACF was the first major charitable
organization to provide grants to groups assisting AIDS patients. Philipp
has served in leadership roles with the United Way of Atlanta, the Downtown
Area Council of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Atlanta, and
The Atlanta Project. At Emory, she is a member of the Board of Visitors
and the Advisory Committee of the Rollins School of Public Health.
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William C. Waters III, chair of the Promina Health System
board, received his B.A. degree in English from Emory in 1950 and his medical
degree in 1958. As a faculty member at Emory in the 1960s, Waters helped
develop the first renal transplant program in Georgia, as well as the first
chronic dialysis program. He has served in leadership positions at Piedmont
Hospital and has published articles in several medical journals. A former
president of Emory's Medical Alumni Association, he is a clinical associate
professor in the School of Medicine and a member of the School of Medicine's
Curriculum Task Force.
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