WKU Graduate Owmby To
Speak At Spring Celebration

March 14, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - Joe Owmby, chief prosecutor in the Andrea Yates murder trial in Houston, will return to Western Kentucky University next month for the Society of African American Alumni's Spring Celebration.

Owmby, a 1972 WKU graduate, will be guest speaker at 6 p.m. April 12 at the Carroll F. Knicely Institute for Economic Development.

Spring Celebration also will include the announcement of the 2003-04 scholarship recipient and recognition of all current Society of African American Leadership Scholars.

As assistant district attorney for Harris County, Texas, Owmby led the prosecution of Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children in a bathtub.

Owmby is a division chief in the Trial Bureau of the Harris County District Attorney's Office, is responsible for supervision of the attorneys and staff in six felony district courts and has tried more than 20 capital cases.

At Western, Owmby was a government major and a military science minor and was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He is a graduate of Bowling Green High School and the University of Kentucky College of Law and served in the U.S. Army.

For ticket information, contact the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at (270) 745-4395 or 1-888-WKU-ALUM (958-2586).

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