Ty Aaron Slatton, a 2002 graduate of Warren County High School, graduated Sum Cum Laude from East Tennessee State University with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry with discipline honors.
While at ETSU, Slatton was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and also achieved the dean?s list each semester while in attendance. He has been accepted to the James H. Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City, Tenn., and plans on a career as a M.D. specializing in anesthesiology. He is the son of Max and Tammi Slatton of McMinnville, and grandson of Ted and Clara Slatton and the late Oma Slatton of McMinnville, Harold and Barbara Hale of Smithville, and Luther C. and Betty Roberts of Sparta.