Ryan Simpson ’94 has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He joins Methodist Healthcare after serving as Chief Executive Officer at The Medical Center of Aurora and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital located within the Healthcare Corporation of America Continental Division for the past four years.

Scott Reed ’94 and Andy Robison ’99 were featured in Birmingham Business Journal’s People to Watch in 2023. Reed is the CEO of Oakworth Bank and Robison is the managing partner at Bradley.

Ryan Richardson ’08 has joined law firm Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner in New York. The former lead of global partnerships counsel at Stripe, Ryan further deepens the market-leading expertise of Davis Wright’s financial services practice team.

Brooke Wright ’08 was featured in Bham Now for her work with Protective Life insurance, where she recently facilitated a panel with Hispanic and Latina women during Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month, and starting a Spanish Club, which gives participants the chance to speak and learn Spanish while building cross-departmental relationships. In addition to serving as President of the Darter Junior Board of the Southern Environmental Center, Brooke teaches English as a Second Language and Spanish.

Jeanie Sledd ’09 has been made partner at Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC. As a mass tort and class action attorney, Sledd’s practice includes appellate work in the Eleventh Circuit and the US Supreme Court. She has been recognized as a Mid-South Super Lawyer Rising Star, Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch,” B-Metro Top Women Attorneys, and B-Metro Top Lawyers, and was named “One of the Women Who Shape the State of Alabama” in 2019.

Anna Carroll ’11 has been named partner at Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC. Carroll’s practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death, including medical malpractice, motor vehicle collisions, and premises liability. Carroll served as president of the Birmingham Bar Association Young Lawyers Section and is currently a participant in the BBA Future Leader’s Forum. Carroll is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 for her work in personal injury litigation.

Kenton Myers ’11 was an ASL interpreter for one of the final contestants in the season finale of this season’s “The Circle,” currently streaming on Netflix. Read more about Myers on the BSC Blog.

Lauren Miles ’12 is an attorney in the Consumer Fraud & Commercial Litigation Section of Beasley Allen's Montgomery office. Miles is working on class action litigation involving consumer fraud in the healthcare industry and qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act. She earned a B.A. in political science from BSC and a J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. Miles is a member of the Alabama State Bar, National Trial Lawyers Association, Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association, American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Phi Alpha Delta Legal Society, and Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society.

Julie Potts ’18 recently co-authored an article for Business Alabama on protecting attorney-client privilege during internal investigations. Potts is an Associate Attorney for Commercial and Casualty Litigation at RumbergerKirk in Birmingham.

Marvin Nickell Rochelle ’60 on Nov, 26 in Lebanon, Tenn. A member of Kappa Alpha fraternity at BSC, Rochelle balanced his studies and basketball with his job as a lifeguard at the Birmingham Country Club. He taught physical education and coached basketball at Castle Heights, Daviston High School, Handley High School, and Childersburg High School. Rochelle became the school’s assistant principal in 1983. He was appointed as the principal in 1989 and served as the principal of Childersburg Middle School from 1993 until his retirement in 1996. Rochelle was recognized for his dedicated service to the Childersburg community as the 2013 member of the Childersburg Hall of Fame, an honor he counted among his greatest achievements. He was known for his love of bluegrass and country music, fishing, and tailgating at Auburn University football games.

George Edward Sutton, Jr. ’65 on Feb. 21, 2018 in Austin, Texas. Sutton was deeply spiritual, thoughtful, wise, gentle, compassionate, and curious. He loved the outdoors and walked a large part of the Appalachian trail. He enjoyed reading novels, attending arts and theatre events, gardening, and was actively involved in his church. He was dedicated to his art and was especially gifted in metal work. He was a writer, journalist, and entrepreneur. Sutton served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War.

Dr. Eleanor Fowler McCrickard ’62 on Jan. 18 in Greensboro, N.C. McCrickard was born in Nashville, Tenn. to J. Fort Fowler, who was a Methodist minister, and Elizabeth Thomas Fowler ’37. McCrickard earned a B.A. in music and a B.M. in organ, graduating as valedictorian and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She subsequently earned an M.M. in organ at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. of musicology at the University of North Carolina. McCrickard was a faculty member of the UNC Greensboro School of Music for thirty years. She specialized in music history and was one of the world'’s foremost experts on the music of Alessandro Stradella. She was also a skilled and dedicated teacher, who made lasting relationships with her students and received the outstanding teaching award in the School of Music in 2001. She held a number of positions as organist at churches in North Carolina and Alabama. While a student, she frequently played at St. Mary’s-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church. Later, she was the organist at St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Mountain Brook.

Dr. Bob Hawk ’61 on Jan. 22, in Brevard, N.C. Hawk graduated from Indian Springs High School, after battling polio as a child. He began college at Georgia Tech where he realized he did not want to be an engineer and transferred to Birmingham-Southern College to get a degree in chemistry. There, he met his lifelong love, Barbara Nichols and they married in 1960. After receiving his medical degree from Emory University, he started his medical career serving at Eielson Airforce base in Fairbanks, Alaska. In Brevard, N.C., he began a long career as an OB/GYN. Hawk was the first doctor in Transylvania County to administer epidurals during childbirth. He was tireless, committed, humble, and gave his best at all times. He was known locally as the “honey” doctor because he used honey on his patient’s surgical wounds to promote healing. He was also known for his corny jokes, puns and sincere hospitality. Hawk loved nature and was accepted into the N.C. Forestry Stewardship program in 2010. He enjoyed woodworking, participating in men’s Bible study groups, and the Brevard Music center.

Dell R. Lawler on Jan. 26 in Knoxville, Tenn. Lawler graduated from Woodlawn High School where she met her husband of 62 years, F. Rodney Lawler ’61. Lawler was an active members of Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church. She was an avid traveler, snow skier, scuba diver, and gracious host to countless events where she shared her home with family, friends, and the many charitable organizations she loved. She served as a Girl Scout leader, Sunday school teacher, and board member of numerous organizations such as the East Tennessee Foundation, the Cornerstone Foundation, and Leadership Knoxville.

Dorothy Jones ’47 on Dec. 3, 2022 in Homewood. Jones was a singer, artist, and teacher. She sang in the Birmingham-Southern choir, the choir at Highlands Methodist, and the choir at First Methodist, all under Hugh Thomas. She became a charter member of The Hugh Thomas Chorus and performed with them at the celebrated Town Hall concert in New York City in 1951. During this time, she enrolled in UAB night classes in art with Richard Brough, and painting quickly became her passion. She worked in different media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink, collage, drawing, monotype, and photography. Her work appeared in over 70 exhibitions, including juried shows, solo exhibitions, and group shows. Jones taught art for over 20 years at UAB, The Birmingham Museum of Art, and Space One Eleven. She held various positions in the Watercolor Society of Alabama, the Birmingham Art Association, the Birmingham-Southern College Council on the Arts, and the Art Education Council of the Birmingham Museum of Art. She also judged exhibits, and curated shows of other artist's works.

Rev. Dr. Thomas Warren Ogletree ’55 on Jan. 4 in Branford, Conn. He was the Frederick Marquand Professor Emeritus of Theological Ethics at Yale Divinity School, and its former dean. He served as founding pastor of Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church at age 19. In 1959, he graduated from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. There, his studies and friendship with James H. Cone, who went on to become a leading voice in Black liberation theology, accelerated his lifelong commitment to social justice, activism, and scholarship.
Soon after he began his doctoral studies at Vanderbilt University, he became involved in the sit-in movement, under the leadership of fellow student and renowned activist James Lawson. After receiving a doctorate in 1963, he accepted an appointment at Chicago Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, where he had the privilege to serve as an Advisory Board member for Operation Breadbasket, led by his then-student, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. As dean of Yale Divinity School, Dr. Ogletree was instrumental in partnering with the faculty and administration to preserve the Yale Divinity School campus, raising significant funds to preserve and upgrade the facilities. He also took steps to diversify the Divinity School's faculty and staff by bringing on women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals into leadership roles. Dr. Ogletree was the author of five books, and published numerous scholarly articles in journals, encyclopedias, and essay collections. He was a founding editor of The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, and served on the editorial board of The Journal of Religious Ethics, with one term as associate editor, and where he also served as a trustee. Dr. Ogletree was one of the principal drafters of the current United Methodist Disciplinary statement on doctrinal standards. He was a life member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University and a fellow at Pierson College at Yale. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Livingstone College and Hood Theological Seminary in 1995, an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Birmingham-Southern College in 1991, and an honorary Master of Arts from Yale University in 1990.

David Winn Stephenson ’98 on Jan. 5 in Mountain Brook. Stephenson studied finance at BSC, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He received his J.D. cum laude from the Duke University School of Law, and started his law career with Hill, Ward, and Henderson in Tampa, Fla. Stephenson became a partner with Bradley in Birmingham where he practiced until 2015, at which time he joined Encompass Health Corporation as an Associate General Counsel. He is survived by his wife Mary Margaret Cannon Stephenson ’97.