Columbia College-Orlando alumnae honored by the Columbia College Alumni Association (CCAA)
The
Columbia College Alumni Association (CCAA) honored Sandy Adams ’00 with the
2012 Columbia College Distinguished Alumni Award for attaining outstanding
regional and national recognition in one’s chosen career field and Shanta
Barton-Stubbs ’05 with the 2012 Columbia College Community Service Award for demonstrating
outstanding leadership and service to the citizens of one’s community.
Both Adams and Barton-Stubbs earned degrees from Columbia College-Orlando.
After a stint in the U.S. Air Force, Adams served more
than 17 years as a deputy sheriff in the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and was
involved in road patrol, foot patrol, intelligence and undercover work. She was
elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2002. Her subsequent
re-elections to the Florida House led her to join the U.S. House of
Representatives in 2011. She is in her first term serving as the representative
of Florida’s 24th district.
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Sandy Adams '00 |
Adams lives in Orlando, Fla., with her husband, Judge John Adams. Together they have three children.
Barton-Stubbs founded New
Image Youth Center in 2004, a nonprofit for children in the poverty-stricken
neighborhood of Parramore in Orlando, Fla. She wanted the children to have a
safe place to learn in a positive and motivational environment — essentially, a
place where they could create a “new image” of themselves. In eight years, the
center has gone from serving eight children to more than 50. Every day after
school, New Image welcomes students to play games, get help from tutors, go on
field trips and ultimately, give them an experience they wouldn’t normally
have. Under her direction, no teenage pregnancies or juvenile arrests have
occurred with any of the New Image youth during the eight years of the
program’s existence. Six of the students are enrolled in college.
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Shanta Barton-Stubbs '05 |
In 2011, she was a L’Oreal Paris Woman of Worth and received the Leader of the Year Award from Iota Phi Theta University of Central Florida chapter. She won the title of Ms. Corporate America 2009, the 2008 Magic Maker Award given by the National Basketball Association’s Orlando Magic and the Bank of America Local Hero Award in 2007.
Barton-Stubbs earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with honors from Columbia College in 2005, and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Webster University in 2009. She resides in Maitland, Fla.
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