RICHMOND, IN — Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will speak at Earlham College next year.
Announced in the Fall 2025 edition of Earlhamite, the college’s quarterly magazine, Buttigieg will deliver the third Presidential Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Buttigieg, a Rhodes Scholar and Afghanistan veteran, became the nation’s first openly gay member of a U.S. Cabinet when he was confirmed to be the youngest-ever secretary of transportation in 2021. He also served as mayor of South Bend from 2012 to 2020.
He follows CNN host and former Obama White House adviser Van Jones and investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones as a speaker for the Presidential Lecture Series, which is made possible by the Hawkins Just Society Lecture Fund, the Artist and Lecture Series and the President’s Discretionary Fund.
Ticket information will be announced later this year. Visit earlham.edu/events for updates.
Evan Weaver is a news and sports reporter at The Palladium-Item. Contact him on X (@evan_weaver7) or email at eweaver@gannett.com.
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