Eli Shelby Hammond - federal judge John L. Head (attended)- basketball coach John W. Holland - federal judge Howell Edmunds Jackson - United States Supreme Court Justice William Hicks Jackson - Confederate general, brother of Justice Howell Edmonds Jackson Jim Jones - American football player J. Thomas McAfee - president of Hallmark Systems, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. Chad McMahan, Mississippi state senator.[21] Charles N. Millican - founding President for the University of Central Florida. Gaylon Moore - professional basketball player Jimmy Moore (baseball) - Major League baseball player W. Winfred Moore—Pastor of First Baptist Church of Amarillo, Texas (1959–1989); professor at Baylor University Tom J. Murray (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1943 to 1966 David Alexander Nunn - U.S. Representative and Tennessee Secretary of State Luis Ortiz (baseball) - Major League baseball player Josephine Owino - basketball player for the Washington Mystics Joseph B. Palmer - Confederate general and lawyer Herron C. Pearson (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee Jeanette Brooks Priebe - Director of the Louisville Civil Service Board in Kentucky Chris Rice - Christian recording artist Eugene Rice - United States federal judge (Eastern District of Oklahoma) R. R. Sneed - Tennessee Secretary of State from 1913 to 1917[22] Scratch Track - Indie Acoustic Hip-hop Band Dr. L. Thomas Strong III - Dean of Leavell College and Professor of New Testament and Greek in Leavell College at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.