LSU 2022 Hall of Distinction: D-D Breaux Named Alumna of the Year
April 06, 2022
Front, from left, Cate Heroman, LSU Alumna of the Year D-D Breaux and accepting on behalf of Ivory Toldson, his mother, Nicholy Johnson, and his sister, Johnita Scott; back, LSU Alumni Association President & CEO Gordon Monk, Gil Rew and Young Alumnus of the Year Jordan Davis
– Eddy Perez/LSU Communications & University Relations
BATON ROUGE – Retired LSU gymnastics head coach D-D Breaux and country music artist
Jordan Davis highlighted the roster of distinguished alumni named to the 2022 LSU Alumni Association Hall of Distinction.
They were inducted on April 1 at the Lod Cook Alumni Center along with Cate Heroman,
a veteran teacher, administrator, advocate, consultant, coach, author and Knock Knock
Children’s Museum volunteer; Gil Rew, a retired dentist, past alumni chapter president,
past member and officer of the LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors and scholarship
donor; and Ivory Toldson, national director of education innovation and research for
the NAACP and a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and editor-in-chief
of The Journal of Negro Education.
The first LSU Alumnus of the Year award was conferred in 1966. The Young Alumnus of the Year Award was established in 1999 to recognize alumni who have attained professional prominence early in their careers. Including the 2022 inductees, the LSU Alumni Association has recognized 324 individuals representing a cross-section of LSU graduates.
For information, visit http://lsualumni.org/hall-of-distinction.