MURFREESBORO — Middle Tennessee State University has released the names and hometowns of those students who graduated during the fall 2009 commencement event held Saturday, Dec. 19, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus. Of the 1,633 who graduated during the 98th fall commencement, 1,398 were undergraduates and 235 were graduate students, including 218 master’s candidates, 12 Education Specialist recipients and five Ph.D. candidates. The dual-commencement event featured Mike Williams, a former state representative and MTSU alumnus, as the guest speaker for the 9 a.m. ceremony. Ellen Leifeld, former publisher and president of The Tennessean in Nashville, was the featured speaker for the 1 p.m. commencement ceremony. Following the ceremonies’ respective guest speakers, degree candidates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Science were conferred with their degrees in the morning ceremony, while degree candidates in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass Communication, and the College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning, were conferred during the afternoon event. CANNON COUNTY GRADUATES: Rebecca Ann Jensen Bradyville TN CANNON BS Christopher Edward Jensen Bradyville TN CANNON BS Scott Allan Pack Bradyville TN CANNON BS Kendria Rene Smithson Bradyville TN CANNON BS Anna Corinne Zabriskie Liberty TN CANNON MED April Lenise Weaver Morrison TN CANNON BS Heather B Witty Morrison TN CANNON BBA Steven Jarred Asbury Woodbury TN CANNON BS David Justin Asbury Woodbury TN CANNON BS Jean Marie Brower Woodbury TN CANNON BS Lacey Nicole Buchanan Woodbury TN CANNON BS Joshua David Cole Woodbury TN CANNON BS Renee Dawn Davis Woodbury TN CANNON BA Maxine Ann Dawson Woodbury TN CANNON MST Anna Elizabeth Foster Woodbury TN CANNON BS Deborah Travis Gentry Woodbury TN CANNON MED Cory S Hollandsworth Woodbury TN CANNON BS Michael Keith Jones Woodbury TN CANNON BBA Daniel Youree Lewis Woodbury TN CANNON BS Lance Ellis McAllister Woodbury TN CANNON BS Philip C Mullen Woodbury TN CANNON BS Lisa Ann Murphy Woodbury TN CANNON MED Linda Atieno Ochieng Woodbury TN CANNON BSN Glenna Jean Robinson Woodbury TN CANNON MPS Heather Ann Rollins Woodbury TN CANNON BSW Jaclyn Brooke Smith Woodbury TN CANNON BBA Lana Danielle Spry Woodbury TN CANNON BS