Bowling Green State University will honor alumnae Col. Brenda Hollis, a retired Air Force officer,
who has helped prosecute some of the world’s worst war criminals.The Board of Trustees Friday approved
granting an honorary doctorate to Hollis, a 1968 BGSU graduate in liberal arts, at the 2014 commencement
ceremonies.She will also speak at the ceremony.At the university she competed in hockey, softball and
basketball and was a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha honors society.After graduation she joined the Peace Corps
serving in Senegal and Niger.She then joined the Air Force as an intelligence officer with a role in air
missions during the Vietnam War.After receiving a law degree, she served as a judge advocate in the military
judicial system, retiring at the rank of colonel in 1998.Hollis then joined the Office of the Prosecutor for
the International Criminal Tribunal.She was a lead counsel in a number of cases including those against
Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic and former Liberian president Charles Taylor.Hollis recently was
appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General to be the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra
Leone.She was honored as one of BGSU’s 100 most prominent alumni in 2010.