This award honors an alumnus who has consistently provided exemplary service to Westminster, enhancing the mission, success, stature, and well-being of the School.

An enthusiastic ambassador of Westminster since childhood, Millie Hudson Lathan has a long history of service to the School. As a frequent reunion committee member for the Class of 1959, Millie helped establish the Class of 1959 Scholarship Fund during their 50th reunion year; at their 60th reunion, she led the charge to ensure that her class’s ongoing support would fund a full scholarship. She and her husband, Bob, sent their three children to Westminster—Caroline Lathan-Stiefel ’85, Stewart Lathan ’88, and Rob Lathan ’94—and are thrilled to now have a granddaughter in the Middle School. Millie’s siblings, Kathleen Hudson Rivers ’64 and Paul Hudson ’67, and some of her nieces, nephews, and great-nieces are also Westminster Wildcats.  A graduate of Wellesley College, Harvard University, and Emory University, Millie taught elementary school at Westminster and also worked in other fields such as finance, retail and administration. In addition to her professional accomplishments, she is proud of her volunteer work, which has seen her serving as a High Museum docent, founding and chairing the board of the Cashiers Historical Society, and advocating for the decriminalization of alcoholism, among other things. Millie joyfully accepts this honor in the name of the Class of 1959.

This award recognizes two alumni who have provided extraordinary service to the community or who have achieved outstanding personal, business, or professional success.

Lisa Borders has three decades of leadership experience, delivering results in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. She is the CEO of LMB Group, a management consultancy firm; host of the Enlightened podcast; and recently chaired the Borders Commission, an independent panel chartered by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). Lisa was the inaugural president and CEO of TIME'S UP and is also former president of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Prior to the WNBA, Lisa led corporate impact as vice president of global community affairs at The Coca-Cola Company and chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation. Lisa also served as president of the Grady Health Foundation and as senior vice president of marketing and external affairs and foundation president with Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Cousins Properties Incorporated. She serves as a trustee of Duke University and a global director for Operation Hope. Lisa also currently serves as an independent trustee of Six Circles Trust at JPMorgan and as an Independent Director for Lottery.com. Lisa earned a BA from Duke University and a MSHA from the University of Colorado. 

This award recognizes two alumni who have provided extraordinary service to the community or who have achieved outstanding personal, business, or professional success.

Jimmy Wright is president of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia, a position he has held since 1985. Jimmy completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and subsequently received a PhD from UNC in 1989. After college, Jimmy taught at Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie, Louisiana; served as assistant headmaster and college admission director at The Heritage School in Newnan, Georgia; and then returned to Chapel Hill to be assistant director of the John Motley Morehead Foundation at UNC. After eight years helping lead UNC’s prestigious merit scholarship program, now known as the Morehead-Cain, he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to lead the Jefferson Scholars Foundation—one of the top merit-based undergraduate scholarship programs in the country. Under his leadership, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation has expanded its scope to support graduate fellows in all disciplines and professorships that attract outstanding new faculty to UVA. This fall, UVA will welcome the first class of Walentas Scholars, a new merit scholarship program for first-generation college students. Jimmy is a member of the Raven Society at UVA and has received the Raven Award—the Society’s highest honor—in recognition of his service and contributions to the University of Virginia.