Please welcome Doug Marlette as our banquet speaker for the evening of July 14, 2004.

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and raised in Durham, N.C., Laurel, Mississippi and Sanford Florida Doug Marlette graduated from Florida State University and began drawing political cartoons for The Charlotte Observer in 1972. He joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1987, New York Newsday in 1989, and the Tallahassee Democrat in 2002.

His editorial cartoons and his comic strip, Kudzu, are syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He has won every major award for editorial cartooning including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. He has received the National Headliners Award for Consistently Outstanding Editorial Cartoons three times, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for editorial cartooning twice, First Prize in the John Fischetti Memorial Cartoon Competition twice and was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.