List of Catholic University of America people

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The following is a list of notable alumni of the Catholic University of America, the national university of Roman Catholic Church in the United States, located in Washington, D.C.

There are several names that could appear on this list twice, but will only appear in the area for which they are best known. For example, several in the Arts category could appear in more than one subcategory. Others could appear in several categories but have been relegated to one.

Alumni[]

See also: James Cardinal Gibbons Medal

Religion[]

Beati and other Servants of God[]

  • Sr. Thea Bowman, FSPA, Servant of God, M.A. in English, 1969, and a Ph.D. in 1972.
  • Rev. Theodore Foley, CP, Servant of God, Passionist priest and Superior General; STL, 1943 and STD, 1944
  • Rev. Captain Emil J. Kapaun, Servant of God, priest, World War II and Korean War US Army chaplain, US Medal of Honor recipient; Master of Arts in education, 1948
  • Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, J.C.B., 1920, Auxiliary Bishop of New York and Bishop of Rochester, host of Life is Worth Living, faculty from 1926 to 1950 in theology and philosophy

Cardinals[]

  • Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago[1]
  • Raymond Leo Burke,[2] Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta[3] and Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis[4]
  • Terence Cooke, M.A., 1949 and M.S.W., 1949, Servant of God, Archbishop of New York
  • Blase J. Cupich, S.T.L. 1979, S.T.D. 1987, Archbishop of Chicago
  • Daniel DiNardo, B.A., M.A., Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
  • Timothy Dolan, Ph.D., 1985, Archbishop of New York
  • Francis George, M.A., 1966, Archbishop of Chicago
  • Patrick Joseph Hayes, S.T.L., 1894, Archbishop of New York
  • James Hickey, S.T.L., 1946, Archbishop of Washington
  • Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Greek Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych
  • John Krol, J.C.D., 1942, Archbishop of Philadelphia
  • Roger Mahony, M.S.W., 1964, Archbishop of Los Angeles
  • Theodore McCarrick, Ph.D., 1963, Archbishop of Washington
  • Humberto Sousa Medeiros, M.A., 1942, S.T.L., 1946, Archbishop of Boston
  • Sean O'Malley, O.F.M.Cap., Ph.D., 1978, Archbishop of Boston
  • Justin Rigali, S.T.B. 1961, Archbishop of Philadelphia
  • Jan Pieter Schotte, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops and President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
  • Luis Antonio Tagle, S.T.L. 1987, S.T.D. 1991 Prefect for the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
  • Donald Wuerl, M.A., 1962, Archbishop of Washington

Bishops[]

Priests[]

  • Nancy Ledins, priest and member of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood who later came out as a transgender woman.

Public service and politics[]

Federal[]

  • Charlene Barshefsky, J.D.1975, Ambassador, United States Trade Representative under Bill Clinton[5]
  • Robert Patrick Casey, Jr., J.D. 1988, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania[6]
  • Jeffrey Chiesa, J.D., 1990, U.S. Senator from New Jersey[7]
  • Thomas E. Donilon, B.A., 1977, National Security Advisor
  • Edward W. Gillespie, B.A. 1983, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee
  • , giant in Louisiana and national Democratic politics for more than six decades
  • Patrick Guerriero, B.A. 1990, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans
  • Luis Guinot, former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica
  • Thomas R. Harkin, J.D. 1972, U.S. Senator from Iowa
  • John P. Hart, president and CEO of the
  • Kathy Hochul, J.D., 1984, U.S. Representative and Governor of New York
  • Sara Dunlap Jackson, National Archives and Records Administration archivist, Military Archives Division
  • Emmett Joseph Leahy (1910–1964), American archivist and entrepreneur, pioneer in the discipline of records management.
  • Thomas P. Melady, Ph.D. 1955, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Burundi, and Uganda
  • Jack Miller, United States Senator from Iowa
  • Samuel Mok, M.A. 1982, former CFO for the U.S. Department of Labor
  • Richard G. Renzi, J.D. 2002, U.S. Congressman from Arizona
  • Kathleen Rice, B.A. 1987, U.S. Congressman from New York State
  • John E. Straub, B.A. 1991, Director of the White House Office of Administration
  • Robert Francis Anthony Studds, B.S. 1917, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps admiral and engineer, fourth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
  • Gwendolyn Sykes, B.S. 1987, former NASA's chief financial officer
  • Robert Tiernan, J.D. 1956, U.S. Congressman from Rhode Island[8]
  • Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, J.D. 1999[9], former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney[10]
  • John McCarthy, B.A. 2013, Senior Advisor to the Counselor to President Joe Biden, former Chief of Staff for Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (D-Pa)[11]

State[]

Local[]

Other (public service and politics)[]

  • Thomasina Jordan, Ed.D., American Indian activist
  • Hani Miletski, Israeli Senior Representative of the Defense Mission to the U.S. for Strategic Defense Initiative Programs
  • Jerome G. Miller, D.S.W., 1965, advocate for alternatives to incarceration and the deinstitutionalization of persons with developmental disabilities
  • Tom G. Palmer, M.A., Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and director of the institute's educational division
  • Timothy Perry Shriver, M.A. 1989, CEO of the Special Olympics
  • Jesus Permuy, Cuban-American Human Rights activist, urban planner, and community leader
  • Aurelia Pucinski, Illinois judge
  • James Soong, M.S. 1971, Taiwanese politician and founder of the People First Party

Arts and letters[]

Film and television[]

  • Susan Anspach, 1961, did not graduate, actress[citation needed]
  • Norma Candal, actress and comedian
  • Pat Carroll, B.A. 1989, Emmy Award-winning actress, voice of Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid
  • Marc Gervais, M.F.A. 1960, Jesuit, writer, film consultant, film professor at Concordia University 1967-2003[16]
  • Henry Gibson, cast member of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
  • John Heard, actor, Peter McCallister from the first two Home Alone films
  • John Paul Jones, contestant on season 15 of ABC's The Bachelorette
  • Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor and Fulbright scholar
  • Laurence Luckinbill, M.F.A. 1958, Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, actor
  • John Carroll Lynch, actor, played Drew Carey's brother on The Drew Carey Show
  • Ed McMahon, B.A. 1949, announcer on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and host of Star Search
  • Kathleen McInerney, B.A., voice actress, Ash Ketchum seasons 1–8 on Pokemon
  • David L. Paterson, B.A., 1989, producer and screenwriter of Disney's Bridge to Terabithia
  • Colleen Zenk Pinter, Emmy Award-winning actress, known for her role on As the World Turns
  • Chris Sarandon, M.F.A., actor, best known for his portrayal of Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride (film)
  • Susan Sarandon, B.A. 1968, Academy Award-winning actress who played Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • John Slattery, B.F.A. 1984, actor
  • Jon Voight, B.A. 1960, actor who won an Academy Award as best actor in Coming Home (1978 film)
  • Lisa Ann Walter, who played Chessy in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap (1998 film), which also starred Lindsay Lohan.

Media[]

  • Maureen B. Dowd, B.A. 1973, columnist for The New York Times
  • Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin, M.F.A. 1967, CEO, Procter & Gamble Productions (producers of As the World Turns and Guiding Light)
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower, M.A. 1972, author
  • Alfred Gough, B.A. 1989, Executive Producer of WB’s Smallville, co-wrote screenplay for Spider-Man 2
  • , photographer, author
  • , M.A. 1985, radio commentator
  • Kathryn Jean Lopez, B.A. 1997, editor-at-large, National Review Online
  • Scott P. Richert, M.A. 1992, Publisher, Our Sunday Visitor
  • Rosanna Scotto, B.F.A. 1980, co-anchor of FOX-5 News (New York)
  • Dennis Wholey, B.A. 1959, host of This is America with Dennis Wholey
  • Brian Williams, attended briefly but did not graduate, anchor, NBC Nightly News

Theatre[]

  • John Aler, B.M. 1971, M.M. 1972, tenor, eight-time Grammy winner
  • Harolyn M. Blackwell, B.M. 1977, M.M. 1980, soprano, Metropolitan Opera
  • Walter Bobbie, dancer, choreographer, director and actor
  • Philip Bosco, B.A. 1957, Tony Award-winning actor
  • Fabiana Bravo, Argentine operatic soprano, Metropolitan Opera
  • Mart Crowley, playwright
  • Rose Hemingway, stage actress, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying on Broadway
  • George Herman, M.F.A 1954, playwright
  • Jean Kerr, M.F.A., Pulitzer-winning playwright and author
  • Jason Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (1973). He also starred as Father Damien Karras in the movie The Exorcist.
  • Donn B. Murphy, M.F.A. 1954, President of National Theatre Washington, DC; Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Georgetown University
  • Michael Murray, B.A. 1954, co-founder and Artistic Director of Charles Playhouse (Boston); Artistic Director of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Chair of Department of Theatre Arts, Brandeis University
  • Tracy Lynn Olivera, B.M. 1999, actress
  • Joe Plummer, B.A. 1954, actor and playwright
  • Gerome Ragni, musical writer and actor
  • Frances Sternhagen, Broadway, film and television actress
  • Paula Vogel, B.A. 1974, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Other (arts)[]

  • Mark Adamo, B.M., 1990, composer
  • Yazmany Arboleda, School of Architecture and Planning, 2005, installation artist
  • Antonella Barba, contestant on the 6th season of American Idol
  • Joseph Fitzmartin, composer, conductor and arranger
  • Patricia Goslee, M.F.A., painter, curator
  • Elizabeth Hand, B.A., author
  • John Harrington, B.A. 1990, photographer, author
  • Maryann Karinch, B.A., 1974, M.A., 1979, author
  • Hank Levy, M.M., composer, notable for composition used in the 2014 film Whiplash
  • Nick Lowe, comic book editor
  • Paul Neebe, Ph.D., classical trumpeter
  • Father Norman O'Connor (1921–2003), priest, jazz music aficionado, writer, radio and TV show host
  • Marjorie Perloff, M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1965, poetry scholar and critic
  • Martin Puryear, B.A. 1963, sculptor
  • Jim Self, M.M., 1972, classical tubist
  • Don Shirley, composer and pianist, on whom the Oscar-winning movie Green Book was based
  • John Vachon, photographer
  • Marion Verhaalen, composer and musicologist
  • Rolande Maxwell Young, composer

Business[]

Education[]

  • Sanford Berman, M.S. 1961, radical librarian
  • Mary Daly, M.A., radical feminist theologian and advocate of parthenogenesis
  • James W. Dean Jr., B.A., President of the University of New Hampshire[18]
  • Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., M.A. 1983, President, Villanova University
  • Brother Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., President, La Salle University
  • Andrew Gonzalez, M.A., President of De La Salle University
  • Euphemia Haynes, first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
  • Mark A. Heckler, M.F.A 1979, President, Valparaiso University
  • Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, S.T.D. 1945, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame
  • Joseph L. Levesque, S.T.D. 1977, President of Niagara University
  • W. Wesley McDonald, author of Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology
  • Jesse Mann, Ph.D., 1958, professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgetown University
  • Kenneth Ozmon, M.A. 1963, President of Mount Allison University
  • Judith C. Russell, M.L.S. Current Dean of the University of Florida Library System
  • Charles C. Tansill (1890-1964), Professor of History
  • Gary Vena, M.A., Professor of English and Drama at Manhattan College
  • Spiro Zavos, M.A. 1967, Australasian historian, journalist and writer

Civil Law[]

  • Kathleen Abernathy, J.D. 1983, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
  • Alice S. Fisher, J.D. Assistant Attorney General and head, United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
  • Arthur J. Gajarsa, M.A. 1964, Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • James J. Hayden, J.D. Dean of the Columbus School of Law 1941–1954; maternal grandfather of Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve
  • Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, B.A. 1965, J.D. 1968, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia and presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
  • Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., J.D. 1980, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • John T. Noonan, Jr., M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1951, Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Peggy Quince, J.D. 1975, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court and first African-American woman to sit on that bench

Canon Law[]

  • Edward N. Peters, J.C.D. 1991, Referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Science and engineering[]

  • Norman L. Crabill, BAE, 1949, developed patents for rocket vehicle control system and automated weather systems for pilots
  • Hugh Everett, 1953, physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics
  • Nelly Garzón Alarcón (1932-2019), Colombian nurse, teacher
  • Michael D. Griffin, NASA Administrator
  • Marie Inez Hilger (1891-1977), Benedictine nun and anthropologist
  • Charles Kaman, B.A. 1940, aviation pioneer and founder of Kaman Aircraft
  • Daniel R. Mulville, Ph.D. Structural Engineering 1974, NASA's Chief Engineer and Acting Administrator of NASA in 2001
  • Rev. Julius Nieuwland, C.S.C., Ph.D. 1904, discoverer of synthetic rubber
  • Joseph Weber, Ph.D. 1951, developed the first gravitational wave detectors and first suggested the use of laser interferometry in the field
  • Marguerite Thomas Williams, Ph.D. 1942, first African American to earn a Ph.D. in geology[19]

Athletics[]

  • Bill Adamaitis, player for the Washington Redskins
  • Michael Bidwill, principal owner, chairman, and president of the Arizona Cardinals
  • Brian Cashman, B.A. 1989, Senior Vice-president and General Manager, New York Yankees
  • Tim Connelly, B.A. 1999, General Manager of the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association
  • Frank Coonelly, J.D., President of the Pittsburgh Pirates
  • , B.A. 2011, M.S.B.A. 2014 Head Men's Basketball Coach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Bryson Fonville, B.A., 2016, player for the Texas Legends
  • Marty Hurney, B.A., 1978, American football administrator and executive
  • Bill Lajousky, NFL player[20]
  • Mike Lonergan, B.A. 1988, Head Men's Basketball Coach, George Washington University
  • Jimmy Patsos, B.A. 1989, men's basketball head coach, Siena College[21]
  • Wally Pipp, A.B. 1914, first baseman, New York Yankees

Other[]

  • Carl Amery, German writer
  • Thomas Berry, Ph.D., cultural historian and ecotheologian
  • Thea Bowman, Catholic nun, teacher and scholar[22]
  • Francis P. Duffy, Ph.D., military chaplain, war hero, and namesake of Time Square's Duffy Square
  • Patrick Fahey, OSA, Prior Provincial of the Australian Province of the Order of St Augustine
  • Charles Kekumano, Ph.D.
  • Robert McCulloch, missionary in Pakistan for 33 years
  • John T. Tozzi, Ph.D., U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral
  • Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican artist and architect; designed a National Heritage building

Faculty[]

  • Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino
  • Cardinal Avery Dulles, taught theology 1974-1988
  • Chorbishop John D. Faris, Maronite canon lawyer
  • Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, peritus to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani at the Second Vatican Council
  • Father Gilbert Hartke, O.P.
  • Michael Hendricks, psychologist, suicidologist, and an advocate for the LGBT community
  • Theo Holm, botanist[23]
  • Oleg Kalugin, former KGB spy
  • Walter Kerr, dramatist and theater critic
  • Frederick Joseph Kinsman, ecclesiastical historian
  • Douglas Kmiec, Legal Counsel to President Ronald Reagan; United States Ambassador to Malta; faith advisor to President Barack Obama; served as Dean and St. Thomas More Professor, Columbus School of Law
  • Theodore Litovitz, physicist and inventor[24]
  • Wayne Millner (1913–1976), American football player
  • Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, JCB, 1920, Auxiliary Bishop of New York and Bishop of Rochester, host of Life is Worth Living, faculty from 1926 to 1950 in theology and philosophy[25]
  • George P. Smith II, bioethics scholar, prolific writer
  • Monsignor Robert Sokolowski, philosopher
  • Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila [26]
  • , former Swiss Guard and CEO
  • Monsignor John F. Wippel, Thomas Aquinas scholar
  • Karl Herzfeld, physics

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