President and CEO of the Iowa Bankers Association Adam Gregg will deliver the keynote address at Central College’s Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 10th at 10 am in Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium.

A 2006 Central graduate, Gregg served as Iowa’s lieutenant governor from 2017 to 2024 and has held numerous public service roles. From 2014 to 2017, he was a state public defender, overseeing Iowa’s indigent defense system, which managed over 150,000 cases annually. At age 31, he became the youngest department head in Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s administration.

As a student at Central, Gregg double majored in political science and history, interned with the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Congress and the United Kingdom Parliament, played four years of Dutch football, and graduated first in his class. He later earned his law degree with high honors from Drake University Law School, where he was an Iowa Supreme Court Scholar and on the “Drake Law Review.” Central honored Gregg with its Distinguished Alumnus Award for his work as the lieutenant governor of the State of Iowa.

For more information on Commencement, visit central.edu/commencement.