OUR ALUMNI

You will find prominent CUA alumni making their mark in a variety of fields including the arts, media, business, public service, science, engineering and more.  Following are a few CUA alumni whose names you may recognize.



Arts
Harolyn M. Blackwell, B.M. 1977, soprano, Metropolitan Opera
Philip M. Bosco, B.A. 1957, Tony Award winning actor
Patricia A. Carroll, B.A. 1949, actress, voice of Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Laurence Luckinbill, M.F.A. 1958, Emmy award winning producer, writer, actor
Ed McMahon, B.A. 1949, entertainer
Martin Puryear, B.A. 1963, sculptor featured in Time Magazine's America's Best issue
Susan Sarandon, B.A. 1968, actress
John M. Slattery, Jr., B.F.A. 1984, appeared on the hit series "Ed" and "K Street"
W. Gresham Striegel, B.A. 1990, Senior Producer, Fox News Channel
Paula A. Vogel, B.A. 1974, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
Jon P. Voight, B.A. 1960, actor

Business

Brian M. Cashman, B.A. 1989, General Manager of the New York Yankees

Robert E. Craves, B.A. 1965, Co-Founder of Costco Wholesale

Martin R. Hurney, B.A. 1993, General Manager of the Carolina Panthers

Edward M. Liddy, B.A. 1968, CEO of Allstate Insurance

Timothy C. Scheve, B.A. 1980, President of Legg Mason

Joseph A. Unanue, B.M.E. 1950, CEO of Goya Foods, Inc.

James T. Vanderslice, Ph.D. 1966, former President of Dell Computer Corp.

Education

Judith Dwyer, Ph.D. 1983, President, Xavier University, Chicago, IL

Mary E. Hines, M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1981, President, Carlow University, PA

Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, C.M., S.T.D. 1977, President, Niagara University, NY

Fr. Kevin Mackin, OFM, S.T.D. 1971, President, Siena College, NY

Barbara Murphy, M.A. 1969, President, Johnson State College, VT

Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M., J.C.D. 1990, President, CUA

John Q. Porter, B.A. 1973, Deputy Superintendent, Strategic Technologies & Accountability, Montgomery County Public Schools, MD

Brian J. Shanley, O.P., Ph.L. 1985, President, Providence College, RI

Stephen J. Sweeny, B.A. 1966, President, The College of New Rochelle, NY

Mark Vanderheyden, MA 1965,   Ph.D. 1968, President, St. Michael's College, VT

Law

Ralph H. Baxter Jr., M.A. 1970, one of  The National Law Journal's “100 Most Influential Lawyers”

Frank Lorson, A.B. 1966, J.D. 1971, former Chief Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court

Kathleen Abernathy, J.D. 1983, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission

Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, B.A. English 1965, J.D. 1968, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia 

Media

Richard Diefenbach, Jr., B.A. 1984,  Veteran news journalist of ABC, CBS and Fox News, started NYC media and production firm

Mary Alice Dwyer Dobbin, M.F.A. 1967, CEO, Proctor & Gamble Productions (As the World Turns, Guiding Light)

Maureen B. Dowd, B.A. 1973, Columnist for The New York Times

Alfred F. Gough, III, B.A. 1989, Executive Producer of WB’s Smallville, co-wrote screenplay for Spider-Man II

Amy Joyce, B.A. 1996, Columnist for The Washington Post

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, M.A. 1972, author

Alberto R. Ortiz, B.A. 1972, Executive Producer, CBS News

James L. Rowe Jr., B.A. 1969, Sunday Editor The Washington Post

Angela C. Santomero, B.A. 1990, Co-Creator of Blues Clues

Rosanna D. Scotto, B.F.A. 1980, Co-Anchor of FOX-5 News (New York)

Nursing

Brig. General William T. Bester, M.S.N. 1985, Chief, U.S. Army Nurse Corps; Commanding General, US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine

Lois K. Evans, D.N.Sc., FAAN, RN, Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor in Nursing; Chair, Family and Community Health Division, UPenn School of Nursing.

Dr. M. Louise Fitzpatrick, RN, FAAN, B.S.N. 1966, Dean for 27 years at Villanova University School of Nursing

Col. Mary Lou Keener, USAFR (Ret.), B.S.N. 1966; J.D. 1982, General Counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1993-1997; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Force Management and Personnel.

Public Service and Politics

Edward W. Gillespie, B.A. 1983, Chairman of the Republican National Committee

Thomas R. Harkin, J.D. 1972, U.S. Senator from Iowa

Mitchell J. Landrieu, B.A. 1982, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

Terence R. McAuliffe, B.A. 1979, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Martin O’Malley, B.A. 1985, Mayor of Baltimore

Thomas P. Melady, Ph.D. 1955, former Ambassador to the Vatican, Burundi, and Uganda

Richard G. Renzi, J.D. 2002, U.S. Congressman from Arizona

Timothy Shriver, M.A. 1988, CEO of Special Olympics

Religion

Msgr. William P. Fay, Ph.D. 1987, General Secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Francis Cardinal George, M.A. 1966, Archbishop of Chicago

James Cardinal Hickey, S.T.L. 1946, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington

Roger Cardinal Mahony, M.S.W. 1964, Archbishop of Los Angeles

Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M., J.C.D. 1990, President of The Catholic University of America

Most Rev. Sean Patrick O'Malley, O.F.M.Cap., Ph.D. 1978, Archbishop of Boston

Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Ph.D. 1963, Archbishop of Washington

Justin Cardinal Rigali, S.T.B. 1961, Archbishop of Philadelphia

Bishop Fulton Sheen (deceased), J.C.B. 1920, host of Life is Worth Living

Science and Engineering

Euphemia Lofton Haynes (deceased), Ph.D. 1943, first African-American female mathemetician

Charles H. Kaman, B.A. 1940, aviation pioneer and founder of Kaman Corporation

Carol Nacy, B.A. 1970, M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1977, CEO of Sequella, Inc.