Judson’s Artist-in-Residence to Be Included in Black History Calendar

Judson College artist-in-residence and alumna Billie Jean Young was recently chosen to be featured in the inaugural edition of AT&T’s Alabama African American History Calendar for 2011.

She will be July’s featured personality.

Those chosen to be featured in the calendar either were born in Alabama or have made contributions to the state through their life and work.

Young joins other notables in the calendar including Martin Luther King Jr., baseball legend Hank Aaron and U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.

Young graduated from Judson in 1974 as part of the class that included two black graduates for the first time in the college’s history and was the second black woman to earn a law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham.

For more information, visit www.alafricanamerican.com.