Atlanta native to receive coveted scholarship for optometry

Kellianne Lambert of Atlanta, Texas, was recently honored with the Presidential Endowed Scholarship at Southern College of Optometry. The scholarship recognizes a student with a competitive GPA, Optometry Admission Test score and demonstrated leadership and service. It comes with a $20,000 per year monetary award.

Lambert is the daughter of Pam and Kelly Huffman and the granddaughter of Billie Anne and Charles Huffman and Billie Jo and Duncan Thompson.

She is married to Carson Lambert. Lambert graduated from Atlanta High School in 2016 and Texas A&M University in 2020.

Each year, Southern College of Optometry recognizes its most outstanding first-year students with scholarships to help defray the costs of their optometric education.

This year, the college awarded 74 students approximately $650,000 for the pursuit of their Doctor of Optometry degrees.