The Leadership Rockdale Class of 2015 celebrated its graduation June 16 at Hawthorne Suites in Conyers. This year’s LR program graduates built a legacy garden and outdoor classroom from the Conyers Head Start program, and spent one day a month for six months learning intensively about Rockdale and Georgia and developing leadership skills. The Leadership Rockdale Program, operated by the Conyers-Rockdale Chamber of Commerce, is a once-a-month,  eight-month long program running October-May that develops leadership skills and networking contacts while intensively educating potential leaders about many things they need to know about Rockdale-Conyers. The Chamber is looking for nominations for the upcoming Class of 2016; contact katy@conyers-rockdale.com. Deadline to nominate is July 1.

The graduates are: Constance Abbott, J.P. Alexander, Dr. Antoinette G. Alvarado, Phinia Aten, Teresa Baltzell, Macrae Brennan-Fuller, Billie Boyd-Cox, Latisha Courchaine, Elaine Davis-Nickens, Will Hardy, Timothy P. Hogg, Kaitlyn C. Hooks, Sharon E. Kenerly, Lynn C. Killman, Kathleen King, Jason M. Korzan, Christopher R. Lee, Trayvon D. Leslie, Sharon D. Mathis, Susan C. Morgan, F. Jill Oldham, C. Joy Peppers, Amaris H. Rasheed, Tisa Smart-Washington, Caroline Ingle St. John, Michelle A. Terrell, Chadwick D. Wade, Willie J. Washington, Dr. Shawna Woodruff.