1997 to 2006
UWF students during this time saw the opening of the Health, Leisure and Sports Facility. They also braved Hurricane Ivan as it ravaged the Gulf Coast and descended on campus. This decade in history was marked by the turn of the century and the Y2K bug that threatened to upend the World Wide Web as we knew it—and a Harvard dropout launched Facebook.

Tyson Ray ’97
Founding Partner of FORM Wealth Advisors | Founder of Children’s World Impact

John Gormley ’98
Senior Vice President, Commercial Banking at BBVA Compass

Randall “Todd” Harris ’99
Judge in the First Judicial Circuit Court of Florida

Judge Brandon Young ’99
Judge in the 14th Judicial Circuit of Florida

Kelly Addington and Becca Tieder ’98, ’04
Co-founders, One Student Nonprofit

Stephan Hall ’00
Finance Director

Dr. Karen Barber ’01
Superintendent, Santa Rosa County School District

Chris Lovell ’01
CEO and Founder of Lovell Government Services

Rev. LuTimothy May ’02
Senior Pastor, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church | Executive Director, Dixon School of the Arts

Derrik Lang ’03
Senior Editor, American Way Magazine | Former Entertainment Reporter and Producer, the Associated Press

Rockford Sansom ’03
Actor and Educator in New York City

Major John Brake ’04, '07
UWF Army ROTC Recruiting Operations Officer

Erik Medley ’05
Owner, Medley Sports Construction
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Emily Ley ’05, ’07
Founder and Creative Director, Emily Ley

Justin Tate '05
Vice President, Corporate Middle-Market Banking at BBVA Compass

Hong Potomski ’06
Executive Director, Andrews Research & Education Foundation
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Devin Collier ’06
Judge in the 14th Judicial Circuit of Florida