Georgia Circle of Distinction
Freddy Farah
Inducted 2002
Farah lettered on the Georgia football team in 1960. He is a successful businessman in Jacksonville, Fla. Farah also is a past president for the Bulldog Club of Jacksonville.
Leon Farmer
Inducted 2002
Farmer, who earned degrees from Georgia in 1964 and 1967, has been a successful Athens businessman for many years. The Farmer family has endowed ten scholarships in eight different sports.
Don Leebern
Inducted 2002
Lettered as a Georgia football player from 1957-59. The successful Columbus businessman has endowed three scholarships for football and gymnastics. The Bulldogs' locker room at Butts-Mehre is named in his honor.
Jack Turner
Inducted 2002
Turner is a former Georgia baseball (1951) and basketball (1951-52) player who serves as the volunteer chairman of the Athletic Scholarship Endowment Program. The Turner family has endowed ten scholarships for football, men's and women's basketball, gymnastics and baseball.
J. Warren Mitchell
Inducted 2003
Mitchell, a 1948 University of Georgia graduate and a native of Greenville, S.C., had a distinguished career in the insurance business before his retirement. He is a charter member of the Bulldog Club, a member of the Presidents Club, a donor to the Partners Program and a member of the National Alumni Association.
Rankin M. Smith, Sr.
Inducted 2012
Smith was one of the driving forces in moving Atlanta from a southern town to a major international city. He was at the forefront of bringing major sports facilities, events and teams to his hometown including Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Georgia Dome, the Atlanta Braves, and Falcons, the Falcons as original owner. His great devotion to the University was honored through the generosity of his family which made possible the construction of the Rankin M. Smith, Sr., Student-Athlete Academic Center in 2002.
Alice and John Sands
Inducted 2013
Loyal Bulldog fans from Columbus, Georgia for more than 50 years, they established a Charitable Lead Annuity Trust for UGA Athletics. The fourth floor of the Sanford Stadium South SkySuites, as well as the Foley Field main gate plaza, bear their name.
Tom Cousins
Inducted 2015
Cousins, an SEC champion freestyler for the Bulldog swim team in 1950, has been prominent in Atlanta real estate and property development including the Omni coliseum complex, the Georgia World Congress Center, CNN Center and the Pinnacle Building in Buckhead. He is a past recipient of the Bill Hartman Award.
