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Dr. Cortney Youens Lee, AHS Class of 1996, attended Southwest Texas State University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in three years with a major in Biology and minor in Chemistry. She then completed medical school at Texas Tech University School of Medicine, earning recognition as a member of the national Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as well as election as President of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Student Senate.

Leigh Walker Stanley is the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for her 34 years of dedicated and diligent work in education as a classroom teacher and her current 6 years of volunteer work on the Atlanta Education Foundation. Stanley, an Atlanta native and lifetime Rabbit, attended Atlanta schools all 12 years of her youth graduating in 1974. Mrs. Stanley taught 32 of her 34 year teaching career in an Atlanta ISD classroom-28 years at Atlanta Primary and 4 years at Atlanta Elementary.

Hope Thompson, AHS Class of 2004, is a three-time Women’s Professional Rodeo Association team roping World Champion. Thompson attended Northeast Texas Community College in Mt. Pleasant and then received a rodeo scholarship and attended McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She won the College National Finals Rodeo in 2008 in the Breakaway and was named National Champion Breakaway Roper. Thompson, who is also a professional horse trainer, is responsible for training the great breakaway horse Super Chrome Ink, which won the American Quarter Horse Association Reserve World title. Thompson is also the highest earning athlete in the World Champions Rodeo Alliance history, with $229,000 in earnings in the last three years alone. She was also named the Women’s Rodeo World Championship All-Around Cowgirl. While growing up, Thompson attended the Josey Ranch All-Around camp near Marshall and knew that she wanted to someday be a rodeo clinician. After meeting the Josey family, young Thompson began learning from them and worked her way through the ranks of women’s professional roping. Around 2010, she put it all on the line and moved to the Guy Ranch in Abilene, Texas. Since then, Thompson has continued to work hard to become one of the most influential roping competitors and coaches in the world.