in YWCA, NAACP, Urban League, and settlement work in southern California George Howard, Jr. - First African-American federal judge in Arkansas Leo Lewis - Member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame Carey Means - Voice of Frylock on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zeke Moore - Former NFL defensive back Oliver Lake - Jazz musician Julius Hemphill - Jazz musician Lemar Parrish - Former eight-time pro bowl National Football League (NFL) defensive back in the 1970s and early 1980s, and former head coach of the Blue Tiger football team from 2004 to 2009 Wendell O. Pruitt - Captain Pruit was a fighter pilot with the famed 332nd Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen) Romona Robinson - Award-winning Cleveland television news presenter Joe Torry - Actor and comedian Ronald Townson - American vocalist. He was an original member of The 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Maida Coleman - Senate Minority leader in Missouri Blaine Luetkemeyer - U.S. Congressman William Tecumseh Vernon - Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a former president of Western University Joshua Peters (2009) One of the youngest members of the Missouri State House of Representatives, and a former SGA president Moddie Taylor (1935) African American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and became the head of Howard University's Chemistry Department from 1969 to 1976 Ann Walton Kroenke - Walmart heiress and sports team owner, nursing degree John Collins Muhammad - City of St. Louis Alderman & Activist References External links Official athletics website Buildings and structures in Jefferson City, Missouri University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Land-grant universities and colleges Historically black universities and colleges in the United States Educational institutions established in 1866 Public universities and colleges in Missouri Education in Cole County, Missouri 1866 establishments in Missouri Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Cole County, Missouri