Homecoming Parade Grand Marshal
REO Speedwagon
Read the Illinois News coverage on the 2025 Parade Marshals: Members of REO Speedwagon return to campus for Illinois 2025 Homecoming festivities
Former Homecoming Parade Grand Marshals:
- 2024: Jennifer Roscoe, WCIA-TV news anchor and Illinois alumna
- 2023: Kimiko Gunji, founding director, Japan House and Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud, director, Japan House (Celebrating 25 years of Japan House!)
- 2022: Gene Honda, voice of Memorial Stadium
- 2021: Mary Henson, 2020 honorary alumna
- 2020: No Parade
- 2019: Stanley O. Ikenberry, University of Illinois President Emeritus and 2019 honorary alumnus
- 2018: Scott Altman, former NASA astronaut & U.S. Navy captain, retired, Class of 1981
- 2017: Brandon Lloyd, former NFL and Illinois football player.
- 2016: Tatyana McFadden, Paralympic gold medalist, marathon Grand Slam champion, Class of 2013
- 2015: Bill Geist, Emmy Award winning journalist, Class of 1968
- 2014: Kendall Gill, “Flyin’ Illini” team member, NBA player (1990-2005), Class of 1990
- 2013: Judi Ford Nash, Miss America 1969, Delta Gamma sorority alumna, Class of 1973
- 2012: Raymond Martin, London 2012 four-time Paralympic gold medalist, Class of 2016