Derek Rockhill
Technology Manager II
Derek Rockhill serves as a Technology Manager with UK Information Technology Services. He brings eighteen years of experience working in the technology field at the University of Kentucky and most recently served as the Director of IT for the College of Law. He led the efforts to equip the new College of Law building with state of the art technology. He specializes in technology leadership, web design, AV systems, and providing top-tier service to his colleagues.
Derek came to the University of Kentucky from Louisville, Kentucky. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications and is currently working towards his Masters in Information Communication Technology at the University of Kentucky.
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.