Alyssa (Baker) Lankford to Receive Prestigious Young Alumni Achievement Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fulton, Mo. ‒ March 21, 2025: Westminster is pleased to announce that Alyssa (Baker) Lankford of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Class of 2014, will receive the College’s Young Alumni Achievement Award on April 12 during Alumni Weekend.
Lankford is an attorney at McAfee & Taft in Oklahoma City who served for two years as a federal judicial clerk to the Honorable Glenn T. Suddaby, then-chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Lankford graduated with a degree in transnational studies and Spanish from Westminster, where she was involved with a variety of campus organizations, including Student Ambassadors, Student Foundation and Kappa Alpha Theta. She then spent two years as a full-time elementary school teacher and part-time elementary content specialist with Teach for America.
In 2019, Lankford graduated with distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the American Indian Law Review, volunteered as a court-appointed special advocate for CASA, received multiple awards for academic excellence and was inducted into the National Order of Scribes. At graduation, Lankford received the Professional Responsibility Award, which is voted on by members of the graduating class and awarded to the graduating student who best exemplifies the spirit of professional responsibility and leadership.
Outside of work, Lankford gives back to her community through her involvement with the Innovative Board of the Children’s Health Foundation: a nonprofit organization that supports research, education and care of children in Oklahoma. The foundation’s mission is uniquely personal to Lankford, who is an adolescent bone cancer survivor.
In her free time, Lankford enjoys spending time with her husband, Andrew Lankford, Class of 2014 and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, their son, Reid and their two dogs. Lanford loves to read, spend time outside and travel.
The Young Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni who demonstrate the Westminster mission through outstanding achievement early (within five to 15 years) in their chosen career and/or dedicated leadership and service to their community.
For more information on the 2025 Alumni Weekend, please visit Westminster’s website.
ABOUT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: Founded in 1851 and home of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, Westminster College is ranked prestigiously by The Princeton Review as one of the “Best 150 colleges in the Midwest” for 2025 and is one of only 37 full-participation institutions with the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition as recognized by the Higher Learning Commission. New graduates experience a more than 90% placement rate within six months of graduation, while Westminster alumni are in the top 16% nationwide for graduate earnings. The only National Liberal Arts college in Missouri, Westminster has long been recognized for its focus on educating and inspiring students to make an impact on the world around them. Find out more about Westminster College by visiting our our website.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Sarah Backer at 573-220-9038 or [email protected].
