Brenda Bence – author, senior executive coach and branding expert Shawn Bouwens – professional football player for NFL's New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, and Jacksonville Jaguars[9] Ralph G. Brooks – 29th Governor of Nebraska[10] Donald Carlyon – former president Delta College (Michigan) Carl Curtis – former United States Senator[11] John R. Dunning – physicist and key player in Manhattan Project Mignon Eberhart – mystery novelist Rick Evans – singer and guitarist, writer of hit "In the Year 2525" as part of group Zager and Evans Ted Genoways – poet and Virginia Quarterly Review editor John M. Gerrard – current Nebraska State Supreme Court Justice Gene V Glass – regents' professor, Arizona State University, author, social scientist Dwight Griswold – former United States Senator and Governor of Nebraska[12] Kent Haruf – novelist Glenn and Grace Hefner - teachers, accountant for son Hugh Hefner's Playboy company.[13] Harry Huge – international lawyer Lew Hunter – screenwriter and Chair Emeritus of UCLA Film Department Emily Kinney (2006) – television and theater actress (The Walking Dead)[14] Paul D. Knox – Brigadier General, North Dakota Air National Guard Lowen Kruse – minister and current Nebraska state senator L. Jay Lemons – current president of Susquehanna University Jason Licht – general manager of NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers James Moeller – jurist and former Vice Chief Justice, Arizona State Supreme Court Bess Gearhart Morrison – Chautauqua speaker James Munkres – mathematician Orville Nave – author of Nave's Topical Bible John N. Norton – former United States Representative[15] Marian Heiss Price – former Nebraska state senator Robert Reed – science-fiction writer Ed Schrock – former Nebraska state senator Coleen Seng – mayor of Lincoln 2003–2007 Antwan Wilson – superintendent, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, California[16]