List of notable CUA alumni

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

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, such as Tarek Saab, who earned a B.E.E. but is best known as a contestant on NBC's The Apprentice and so appears in the Business category.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents 1 Arts 1.1 Television 1.2 Theatre 1.3 Film 1.4 Other 2 Public service and politics 2.1 Federal 2.2 State 2.3 Local 2.4 Other 3 Media 4 Education 5 Law 6 Nursing 7 Science and engineering 8 Business 9 Religion 9.1 Cardinals 9.2 Bishops 9.3 Other 10 Athletics

[edit] Arts

[edit] Television

• Norma Candal, actress and comedian
• Henry Gibson, cast member of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
• John Carroll Lynch, actor, 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"
• Hafez al-Mirazi, M.A., Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Al-Jazeera Television
• Colleen Zenk Pinter emmy award winning actress best known for her role on As The World Turns

[edit] Theatre

• Harolyn M. Blackwell, B.M. 1977, soprano, Metropolitan Opera
• Walter Bobbie, dancer, choreographer, director and actor
• Philip Bosco, B.A. 1957, Tony Award winning actor
• Fabiana Bravo, acclaimed Argentinean operatic soprano
• Jason Miller, playwright
• 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

[edit] Film

• Pat Carroll, B.A. 1989, actress, voice of Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid
• Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor and Fulbright scholar
• Laurence Luckinbill, M.F.A. 1958, Emmy award winning producer, writer, actor
• Chris Sarandon, B.A., actor
• Susan Sarandon, B.A. 1968, Academy Award winning actress
• John Slattery, B.F.A. 1984, actor
• Jon Voight, B.A. 1960, Academy Award winning actor.

[edit] Other

• Mark Adamo, B.M., 1990, American Composer
• Elizabeth Hand, B.A., author
• John Harrington, B.A. 1990, photographer, author
• Nick Lowe, Comic book author
• Stephen Lynch, musician and comedian
• Martin Puryear, B.A. 1963, sculptor
• John Vachon, photographer

[edit] Public service and politics

[edit] Federal

• Charlene Barshefsky, J.D.1975, Ambassador, United States Trade Representative under Bill Clinton.
• Robert Patrick Casey Jr, J.D. 1988, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
• Edward W. Gillespie, B.A. 1983, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Camille Gravel, 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 American Democracy Institute
• Terence R. McAuliffe, B.A. 1979, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Thomas P. Melady, Ph.D. 1955, former US Ambassador to the Vatican, Burundi, and Uganda
• Jack Miller, United States Senator from Iowa
• Richard G. Renzi, J.D. 2002, U.S. Congressman from Arizona

[edit] State

• Bob Duckworth, B.A., Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Maryland
• Reed Gusciora, B.A., New Jersey General Assemblyman
• Mitchell J. Landrieu, B.A. 1982, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. He was a candidate for the Mayor of New Orleans in the 1993 and 2006 election seasons.
• Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
• Martin O'Malley, B.A. 1985, Mayor of Baltimore and Governor-elect of Maryland
• Brian E. Rumpf, B.A., New Jersey General Assemblyman

[edit] Local

• Joseph Alioto, 1940, mayor of San Francisco
• Kathleen Rice, B.A. 1987, District Attorney of Nassau County, New York

[edit] Other

• Susan Carey Dempsey, Senior Managing Director, B.A., Changing Our World, Inc.
• John P. Hart, President, American Democracy Institute
• 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
• Tom G. Palmer, M.A., Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and director of the Institute's educational division
• Timothy Shriver, M.A. 1989, CEO of the Special Olympics
• James Chu-yu Soong, M.S. 1971, Taiwanese politician and founder of the People First Party
• Dino Drudi, B.A. 1979, Notable community activist. Frequent contributer to Express and Examiner newspapers.

[edit] Media

• Richard Diefenbach Jr., B.A. 1984, Senior Producer, Fox News Channel
• 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
• Michael J. Hurd, M.A. 1985, radio commentator
• Amy Joyce, B.A. 1996, Columnist for The Washington Post
• Michael J. Keegan, B.A. 1991, Producer, The Center for the Business of Government, The Business of Government Hour
• Kathryn Jean Lopez, B.A. 1997, Web Editor, National Review
• Alberto R. Ortiz, B.A. 1972, Executive Producer, CBS News
• Scott P. Richert, M.A. 1992, Executive Editor, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
• James L. Rowe Jr., B.A. 1969, Sunday Editor The Washington Post
• Angela C. Santomero, B.A. 1990, Co-Creator of Blue's Clues
• Rosanna D. Scotto, B.F.A. 1980, Co-Anchor of FOX-5 News (New York)
• W. Gresham Striegel, B.A. 1990, Senior Producer, Fox News Channel
• Brian Williams, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
• John Harrington (photographer, author)

[edit] Education

• Sanford Berman, M.S. 1961, radical librarian
• Mary Daly, M.A., radical feminist theologian and advocate of parthenogenesis
• Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., M.A. 1983, President, Villanova University
• Judith Dwyer, Ph.D. 1983, President, Xavier University, Chicago, IL
• Andrew Gonzalez, M.A., President of De La Salle University
• Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, S.T.D. 1945, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame
• 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
• Kevin E. Mackin, OFM, S.T.D. 1971, President, Siena College, NY
• Thomas M. McFadden, S.T.D., President of Marymount College, Palos Verdes
• Barbara Murphy, M.A. 1969, President, Johnson State College, VT
• Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M., J.C.D. 1990, President, CUA
• Kenneth Ozmon, M.A. 1963, President of Mount Allison University
• John Q. Porter, B.A. 1973, Deputy Superintendent, Strategic Technologies & Accountability, Montgomery County Public Schools, MD
• Michael Scanlan, Chancellor of the Franciscan University of Steubenville
• 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, M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1968, President, Saint Michael's College, VT
• Gary Vena, M.A., Professor of English and Drama at Manhattan College
• John F Wippel, B.A. 1955, M.A. 1956, S.T.L. 1960, Theodore Basselin Professor of Philosophy at CUA
• Spiro Zavos, M.A. 1967, Australasian]] historian, journalist and writer

[edit] Law

• Kathleen Abernathy, J.D. 1983, Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
• Ralph H. Baxter Jr., M.A. 1970, one of The National Law Journal's “100 Most Influential Lawyers”
• Michael J. Bidwill, J.D. 1981, General Counsel and vice president, Arizona Cardinals
• Edward Damich Chief Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
• 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
• 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
• Frank Lorson, A.B. 1966, J.D. 1971, former Chief Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court
• 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, first African-American woman to sit on the Florida Supreme Court
• James L. Ryan, J.D. 1969, Judge in the Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad case

[edit] 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.

[edit] Science and engineering

• Hugh Everett, 1953, physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics
• Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator
• Euphemia Lofton Haynes (deceased), Ph.D. 1943, first African-American female mathematician
• Charles Kaman, B.A. 1940, aviation pioneer and founder of Kaman Aircraft
• Carol Nacy, B.A. 1970, M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1977, CEO of Sequella, Inc.
• Bahram Moshiri, Iranian Bakhtiari historian and scientist
• 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

[edit] 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
• James C. Dinegar, CEO of Greater Washington Board of Trade
• Martin R. Hurney, B.A. 1993, General Manager of the Carolina Panthers
• Edward M. Liddy, B.A. 1968, CEO of Allstate Insurance
• Tarek Saab, B.E.E. 2001, Contestant on the 5th season of NBC's The Apprentice
• Timothy C. Scheve, B.A. 1980, President of Legg Mason
• Joseph A. Unanue, B.M.E. 1950, CEO of Goya Foods
• James T. Vanderslice, Ph.D. 1966, former President of Dell Computers
• Kurt von Finck, B.A. 1995, open-source advocate
• Criton M. Zoakos, Ph.D president and founder of Leto Research

[edit] Religion

[edit] Cardinals

• Francis George, M.A. 1966, Archbishop of Chicago
• Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Greek Major Archbishop of Kiev and Halych.
• James Hickey, S.T.L. 1946, retired Archbishop of Washington
• Roger Mahony, M.S.W. 1964, Archbishop of Los Angeles
• Theodore McCarrick, Ph.D. 1963, former Archbishop of Washington
• Sean O'Malley, O.F.M.Cap., Ph.D. 1978, Cardinal 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 Office of Labor of the Apostolic See

[edit] Bishops

• Michael J. Bransfield, M.Phil 1973, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, WV
• Raymond Leo Burke, Archbishop of Saint Louis
• Daniel DiNardo, B.A., M.A., Archbishop of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston
• Timothy Dolan, Ph.D, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee
• Pierre DuMaine, D.Ed 1961, Bishop of San Jose
• Francis Joseph Gossman, Ph.D 1959, Bishop of Raleigh
• Oscar Hugh Lipscomb, Ph.D. 1963, Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama
• John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, M.A. 1977, Bishop of Ratchaburi, Thailand
• Bennett J. Sims, sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
• Fulton J. Sheen (deceased), J.C.B. 1920, host of Life is Worth Living
• John Mortimer Smith, J.C.D. 1966, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey
• Donald William Wuerl, M.Div 1963, Archbishop of Washington
• Aloysius John Wycislo, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin

[edit] Other

• Thomas Berry, Ph.D, cultural historian and ecotheologian
• Francis P. Duffy, Ph.D, 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, chaplain of the Papal household

[edit] Athletics

• Ben Crowley, 1999, Frontier League
• John Douglas, 1995, shortstop, Toronto Blue Jays
• Wally Pipp, A.B. 1914, first base, New York Yankees
• Rocco Pirro, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Pete Sachon, quarterback, Philadelphia Eagles
• Steve Wilkerson, 1995, wide receiver, Arena Football League
• Drew Zachry, 2000, Frontier League