2018 Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner
Dr. Paul Blaylock received his bachelor of science degree in pre-med from UT Martin in 1968 before earning a medical degree from the UT Health Science Center in Memphis in 1972.
He later graduated from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and has spent the past 40 years serving as both a trauma doctor and a trial lawyer in the Portland area.
Blaylock served as the commencement speaker for UT Martin’s 2016 graduation, and he received the UT Martin Outstanding Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in his chosen professions. During his time at UT Martin, he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and served as president of the Student Government Association. The student government office was officially named after him in 2006. Blaylock was also a close mentee and friend of Dr. Phil Watkins, then vice chancellor of student affairs and SGA adviser, and their friendship is memorialized in the bronze statues titled “Friends” outside the Paul Meek Library. In 2017, he was recognized as one of UT’s 100 most notable alumni.
He also has been honored with both the President’s Award and the Jefferson Award from the American College of Legal Medicine for his disaster work at Ground Zero following 9/11 and additional community and charity contributions.
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