Edgewood College to graduate 243 on May 15

Edgewood College to graduate 243 on May 15
Appellate Judge Paul B. Higginbotham will address commencement

Madison, Wis. (April 25, 2005) – An estimated 243 undergraduate and graduate students will receive their degrees at Edgewood College’s 2005 spring commencement, to be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 15 in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Alliant Energy Center. These will be the first Edgewood College degrees conferred by President Daniel J. Carey, who will be formally inaugurated on Friday, April 29. The speaker will be Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Paul B. Higginbotham (see profile below).

184	Bachelor's degrees:	164	B.S.
		19	B.A.
		1	B.B.A. (Bachelor of Business Administration)

50	Master's degrees:	27	M.B.A.
		11	M.A. - Education
		11	M.S. - Marriage and Family Therapy
		1	M.A. - Religious Studies

9	Doctoral degrees:	9	Ed.D. - Educational Leadership

Appointed to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV in 2003, Judge Paul B. Higginbotham was recently elected to the post for a six-year term. He began his judicial career as the City of Madison’s first municipal judge in 1992. In 1994 he was elected as Dane County Circuit Court Judge. He sat in that court for nine years. He was the first African-American elected to a judicial seat in Dane County. He also became the first person of color to sit on any appellate court in the state’s history. He served as Acting Director of the Madison Equal Opportunities Commission from 1993-94 and as an executive aide to the Dane County Executive from 1988-92. He received his BA from the UW-Madison and a law degree from the UW law school in 1985. He practiced law until 1988 as a trial attorney. He has been an adjunct professor at the UW law school and has served on numerous state bar committees, community boards, and organizations. He is married to Cora Higginbotham. They have two children: Paul Jr. and Julian.

Edgewood College is Madison’s only independent liberal arts college, a Catholic school with 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students. It offers more than 40 academic and professional programs, including master’s degrees in business, education, nursing, and other fields, and a doctoral program in education leadership. For more information about Edgewood College, visit www.edgewood.edu or call 800-444-4861.