Alumni Relations

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. Click any of the links below or scroll over any of the photos on this page to see just a few CUA alumni whose names and faces you may recognize.



Business



Education Administration

Robert E. Craves, B.A. 1965	Edward M. Liddy, B.A. 1968	Joseph A. Unanue, B.M.E. 1950	James T. Vanderslice, Ph.D. 1966	Nessa Feddis, J.D. 1983	Tarek Saab, B.E.E. 2001	Timothy C. Scheve, B.A. 1980	John Carl Erickson, M.A. 1968	Vincent Sheehy, B.A. 1951
Co-founder of Costco Wholesale, Inc.	Former CEO of AIG, Allstate Insurance	Former Chair and CEO of Goya Foods, Inc.	Former CEO of Dell, Inc.	American Bankers Association	Contestant on the 5th Season of "The Apprentice"	President and CEO of Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC	Founder of Erickson Retirement Communities	Chairman, Sheehy Auto Stores, Inc.

Rev. Peter M. Donohue	Judith Dwyer, Ph.D.	Mary E. Hines, Ph.D.	Rev. Joseph L. Levesque	Rev. Kevin Mackin	Barbara Murphy	Sr. Rosemarie Nassif, Ph.D.	Most Rev. David M. O'Connell	Joseph Jabbra, Ph.D. 1971	Rev. Brian J. Shanley
President, Villanova University (PA)	Former President, Xavier University (IL)	President, Carlow University (PA)	President, Niagara University (NY)	Former President, Siena College (NY)	President, Johnson State College (VT)	Former President, Holy Names University (CA)	Former President, The Catholic University of America (DC)	President, Lebanese American University (Lebanon)	President, Providence College (RI)
Stephen J. Sweeny	Mark Vanderheyden, Ph.D.	Raymond A. Yannuzzi, Ph.D.	Rev. Bernard F. O'Connor, Ph.D.	Rev. Stephen J. Privett, Ph.D.	Rev. Kevin Mullen, Ph.D.	Rev. James Patrick Shea	Paul Gaffney, II	Mark A. Heckler	Rev. Dennis Dease
Former President, The College of New Rochelle (NY)	Former President, St. Michael's College (VT)	President, Camden County College (NJ)	President, DeSales University (PA)	President, University of San Francisco (CA)	President, Siena College (NY)	President, University of Mary (ND)	President, Monmouth University (NJ)	President, Valparaiso University (IN)	President, University of Thomas (MN)
John Lash, J.D.	Sr. Anne Munley, I.H.M., M.A. 1973	Rev. Sean O. Sheridan, T.O.R., J.C.L. 2007, J.C.D. 2009
President, Hampshire College (MA)	President, Marywood University (PA)	President, Franciscan University (OH)

Law

Kathleen Abernathy	Ralph H. Baxter, Jr.	Justice Colleen Kollar-Kotelly	Frank Lorson	Alice S. Fisher	Justice John T. Noonan, Jr.	Justice Peggy A. Quince

Media

Richard Diefenbach, Jr.	Mary Alice Dwyer Dobbin	Maureen B. Dowd	Julie Nixon Eisenhower	Alfred F. Gough, III	Amy Joyce	Alberto R. Ortiz	Angela C. Santomero	Rosanna Scotto	Brian Williams

Arts & Entertainment

Harolyn Blackwell	Philip M. Bosco	Patricia A. Carroll	John Lescault	John Carroll Lynch	Laurence Luckinbill	Ed McMahon (Deceased)	David Paterson	Martin Puryear	Susan Sarandon
John M. Slattery	W. Gresham Striegel	Paula A. Vogel	Jon P. Voight	Lisa Ann Walter	Audrey Wasilewski	Jason Miller (Deceased)	Walter Bobbie	Nicholas D'Aurizio	Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Rose Hemingway	Brian Cali	Brandie Sutton	Patrick Carfizzi	Alfred Gough	Dennis Wholey	Kathryn Jean Lopez	Sheilah Kast

Nursing

Brig. General William T. Bester, M.S.N. 1985	Lois K. Evans, M.A. 1970, D.N.Sc. 1980	Dr. M. Louise Fitzpatrick, RN, FAAN, B.S.N. 1966	Col. Mary Lou Keener, USAF (Ret.), B.S.N. 1966, J.D. 1982	Amy Freeman, B.S.N. 1981	Dr. Catherine Gilliss, M.S.N. 1974	Dorothy Fontaine, RN FAAN, Ph.D. 1987	James McCann	Jane White, Ph.D. 1981
Chief, U.S. Army Nurse Corps; Commanding General, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine	Viola MacInnes/ Independence Professor in Nursing; Chair, Family and Community Health Division, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing	Former Dean, Villanova University School of Nursing	General Counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1993-1997; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Force Management and Personnel	President and CEO, Providence Hospital, Washington, D.C.	Dean, Duke University School of Nursing	Dean, University of Virginia School of Nursing	Dean, University of North Carolina, Wilmington School of Nursing	Associate Dean, Adelphi University

Politics & Public Service

Robert P. Casey, Jr., J.D. 1988	Edward W. Gillespie, B.A. 1983	Thomas R. Harkin, J.D. 1972	Mitchell J. Landrieu, B.A. 1982	Terence R. McAuliffe, B.A. 1979	John J. McCarthy, Jr.	Thomas P. Melady, Ph.D., M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1955	Samuel T. Mok, M.A. 1982	Martin O'Malley, B.A. 1985	Gerald Gordon, Ph.D. 1981
U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania	Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee	U.S. Senator from Iowa	Mayor of New Orleans	Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee	Montgomery County (MD) State's Attorney	Former Ambassador to the Vatican, Burundi, and Uganda	CFO, U.S. Department of Labor	Governor of Maryland	President/CEO, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority
Timothy Shriver, M.A. 1988	Thomas Donilon, B.A 1977	Jack Miller (Deceased)	Charlene Barshefsky, J.D. 1975	Camille Francis Gravel, Jr. (Deceased)	Patrick Guerriero, B.A. 1990	Luis Guinot, Jr., J.D.	Forrest H. Anderson (Deceased)	Robert P. Duckworth
CEO of Special Olympics	National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama	Former U.S. Senator from Iowa	Former Ambassador under President Bill Clinton	Democratic Politics in Louisiana	President, Log Cabin Republicans	Former Ambassador to Costa Rica	Former Governor of Montana	Clerk of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County (MD)

Msgr. William P. Fay, Ph.D. 1987	Francis Cardinal George, M.A. 1966	Donald W. Cardinal Wuerl, B.A 1962, M.A. 1963	Roger Cardinal Mahony, M.S.W. 1964	Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Ph.D. 1963	Sean Patrick Cardinal O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Ph.D. 1978	Justin Cardinal Rigali, S.T.B. 1961	Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (Deceased), J.C.B. 1920	Bishop David M. O'Connell	Most Rev. John O. Barres, D.D. S.T.B., S.T.L. 1989
	Archbishop of Chicago, IL	Archbishop of Washington, D.C.	Archbishop of Los Angeles, CA	Former Archbishop of Washington, D.C.	Archbishop of Boston, MA	Former Archbishop of Philadelphia, PA	Host of "Life is Worth Living"	Bishop of Trenton, NJ and former President, The Catholic University of America	Bishop of Allentown, PA
Raymond L. Cardinal Burke, D.D., J.C.D. 1970	Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson, Licentiate 1979	Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, D.D. 1971	James Cardinal Hickey (deceased), B.A. 1946, S.T.D., J.C.D. 2000	Most Rev. Timothy M. Dolan, M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1985	Most Rev. Mark Leonard Bartchak, J.C.L. 1989, J.C.D. 1992	Most Rev. Luis A. Tagle, S.T.L. 1987, S.T.D. 1992
Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura; Former Archbishop of St. Louis, MO	Archbishop of St. Louis, MO	Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, TX	Former Archbishop of Washington, D.C.	Archbishop of New York, NY	Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, PA	Archbishop of Manila, Philippines

Michael D. Griffin	Euphemia Lofton Haynes (Deceased)	Charles H. Kaman (Deceased)	Carol Nacy	Hugh Everett (Deceased)	Joseph Weber (Deceased)

Benjamin T. Rome (Deceased)

Michael J. Bidwell, J.D. 1991	Brian M. Cashman, B.A. 1989	Martin R. Hurney, B.A. 1993	Jonathan Grella, M.A. 1999	James Patsos, B.A. 1989	Mike Lonergan, B.A. 1988	John Becker, B.A. 1990	Walter "Wally" Pipp, 1910-1913
President of NFL's Arizona Cardinals	General Manager of MLB's New York Yankees	General Manager of NFL's Carolina Panthers	Director of Commun. of NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Head Men's Basketball Coach, Loyola University, MD	Head Men's Basketball Coach, The George Washington University, DC	Head Men's Basketball Coach, University of Vermont, VT	Former MLB player for the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds

Catherine Dower-Gold, Ph.D. 1968	Elise Kirk, Ph.D. 1977
Senior scholar in musicology, prolific author	Prolific author