Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon will deliver the spring commencement address at Southeast Missouri State University on May 16.

The commencement ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Show Me Center. An honors convocation is scheduled for 11 a.m. in Academic Auditorium.

Southeast officials said 831 undergraduates and 72 graduate students are to receive diplomas.

Nixon was first elected attorney general in November 1992 on a platform of fighting crime, cleaning up government corruption, protecting consumers and enforcing Missouri's environmental laws.

He is serving his second term as the state's chief law enforcement official. Nixon is Missouri's 40th attorney general. Barrister's magazine named him one of the 20 outstanding young lawyers in the nation.

Prior to becoming attorney general, Nixon served as a state senator for six years. During that time, he supported more than 60 pieces of major anti-crime legislation.

Nixon is a native of De Soto, where he attended public schools. He earned his political science and law degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He was in private practice when he was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1986.