Trenton, NJ – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill is facing renewed scrutiny over her time at the U.S. Naval Academy, where she was barred from walking at graduation in 1994 amid fallout from one of the school’s largest cheating scandals.

A commencement program dated May 25, 1994, reviewed by the New Jersey Globe, omits Sherrill’s name from the list of graduates. Sherrill confirmed she was disciplined for failing to report classmates who had obtained advance copies of an electrical engineering exam in 1992.

“I didn’t turn in some of my classmates, so I didn’t walk, but graduated and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy, serving for nearly ten years with the highest level of distinction and honor,” she said.

The cheating scandal implicated more than 130 mids

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