Pete Rosenbery

Capturing the joy of two young boys playing on the family farm on a spring day near Anna is the essence of visual storytelling. For Lylee Gibbs, a junior in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s journalism program, that moment also earned honors from the world’s largest collegiate photojournalism competition.

In her four years on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus, Simmons Law School Dean Camille M. Davidson has led efforts that have resulted in a historic $10 million gift to the law school, a six-figure gift to rename the courtroom, increased applications while maintaining high standards, and improvements in the ultimate bar passage rate and career placement.