1935 Howard K. Smith, television journalist Lawrence Wright, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and journalist Visual arts Lynda Benglis, N ’64, sculptor Deborah Czeresko, M.A., 1992, glass blower, won first season of Blown Away Mignon Faget, Newcomb 1955, artist, jewelry designer Mary Garrard, 1958, art historian Bryan Nash Gill, 1984, artist Gary Russell Libby, art historian, curator, museum director Sergio Rossetti Morosini, artist, conservator Frank Relle, photographer Wendi Schneider, Newcomb 1977, artist, photographer Hunt Slonem, B.A., 1973, artist Meredith Stern, B.F.A. 1998, artist Cora Kelley Ward, painter Other Alice K. Bache (1903-1977), philanthropist and art collector May Hyman Lesser, medical illustrator Howard Scott Warshaw, video game programmer/designer and documentary filmmaker Business and economics Matt Battiata, CEO, real estate economics expert Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer Richard Brennan Sr., restaurateur, owner of Commander's Palace in New Orleans Neil Bush, B.A., M.B.A., 1979, presidential brother, ex-savings and loan executive Philip J. Carroll, M.S., 1961, former CEO, Shell Oil Company and Fluor Corporation James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and WebMD Charles E. Fenner, founder of Fenner & Beane, a forerunner of Merrill Lynch David Filo, B.S. 1988, co-founder of Yahoo! Alfred Ford, great-grandson of Henry Ford C. Jackson Grayson, professor at Harvard, Stanford and Tulane; member of the Nixon Cabinet Thomas M. Humphrey, PhD. 1970, economist Samuel Israel III, fraudulent hedge fund manager Jeff Klein - hotelier and real estate developer Dean Lombardi, J.D., President and GM of the Los Angeles Kings Peter McNamara, B.S. CEO, McNamara Enterprises Underground Casino & Book Broker Ricardo Salinas Pliego, M.B.A., 1979, Forbes World's Richest People Muhamed Sacirbey, Bosnian-American businessperson Peter Schloss, Chief Executive Officer, Broadwebasia, Director, Giant Interactive (NYSE: GA) Aaron Selber Jr. B.B.A., 1950, businessman and philanthropist in Shreveport Fred L. Smith, president and founder of Competitive Enterprise Institute Paul Tulane (benefactor), philanthropist Sam Zemurray (benefactor) Government and politics Heads of state Luis Guillermo Solis, M.A. 1981, President of Costa Rica U.S. Senators and Congressmen William L. Armstrong, B 1958, former U.S. Representative and U.S. senator from Colorado; president of Colorado Christian University (R) Howard Henry Baker Jr., 1945, U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R) Hale Boggs, Law, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946–1972; house majority leader (D) Lindy Boggs, Newcomb 1935, U.S. Representative, 1973–1991, Tulane benefactor, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, 1997-2001, (D) Edwin S. Broussard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (D) Donelson Caffery, Law, U.S.