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Previous Key Note Speakers

  • 2023 Speaker: Roberto Aguayo, FSU Football 2013 National Team member

  • 2022 Speaker: Brooke Wyckoff, FSU Women’s Basketball Head Coach

  • 2021 (Fall) Speaker: Vivian de las Cuevas-Diaz, FSU Board of Trustees

  • 2021 (Spring) Speaker: Deborah Sargeant, FSU Board of Trustees

  • 2019 Speaker: Florida Representative Dan Daley, District 97 

  • 2018 Speakers: Charlie Barnes, Seminole Boosters Executive Director Emeritus, and Charlie Ward, 1993 Heisman Trophy Winner

  • 2017 Speakers: Nan Hillis, Banking and Nonprofit Leader, and Gordon "Ollie" Wareham, Seminole Tribe of Florida

  • 2016 Speaker: Albert Dunlap, Corporate Executive and FSU Supporter

  • 2015 Speaker: Coach Sue Semrau, FSU Women's Basketball Head Coach

  • 2014 Speaker: Benjamin Crump, Civil Rights Activist & Attorney

  • 2013 Speaker: Allen Durham, Past Chair of FSU Alumni Association, Director of the Osceola and Renegade pageantry, recipient of FSU Circle of Gold Award

  • 2012 Speaker: Nick Maddox, FSU Football National Champion 1999

  • 2011 Speaker: Marvin "Shade Tree" Jones, Two-time Consensus All-American

  • 2010 Speaker: Garrett Johnson, Rhodes Scholar & FSU Track & Field National Champion

  • 2009 Speaker: Raoul G. Cantero, Former Florida Supreme Court Justice

  • 2008 Speaker: The Honorable Mel Martinez

  • 2007 Speaker: Mark McHale, Former FSU Offensive Line Coach

  • 2006 Speaker: Bill Nelson, United States Senator

  • 2005 Speaker: Ray Sansom, Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

  • 2004 Speaker: Derrick Brooks, FSU All-American and NFL Super Bowl Champion XXXVII

  • 2003 Speaker: Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist

  • 2002 Speaker: The Honorable Reubin Askew, Governor of Florida 1971 - 1979

  • 2001 Speaker: Charlie Barnes, Past Executive Director Seminole Boosters, Inc.

  • 2000 Spearker: Allan Bense, Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

  • 1999 Speaker: Peter Boulware, FSU All-American and NFL Super Bowl Champion XXXV

  • 1998 Speaker: Terrell Buckley, FSU All-American and NFL Super Bowl Champion XXXVI

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