List of Loyola University Chicago people

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Here follows a list of notable people of Loyola University Chicago:

Academia

Prominent professors

• Pamela L. Caughie
• Vincent A. Mahler
• David Schweickart

Alumni

• Lawrence Biondi, former President of Saint Louis University ^[1]
• Margaret Callahan, Dean of the College of Nursing at Marquette University ^[2]
• Richard A. Cosier, Dean of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University
• Rona M. Fields, psychologist ^[3]
• Christian Gostečnik, dean of Faculty of Theology of Ljubljana ^[4]
• Marsha Linehan, psychologist who pioneered suicide research and creator of dialectical behavior therapy
• Vincent A. Mahler, prominent political scientist
• J. Dennis O'Connor, former Chancellor of University of Pittsburgh
• Robert A Wild, S.J., President of Marquette University
• Sho Yano, child prodigy
• Scott Yenor, professor at Boise State University

Business

Alumni

• Brenda C. Barnes, chairman and CEO, Sara Lee Corporation; first female CEO of Pepsi Cola ^[5]
• Frank Considine, former CEO of American National Can Corporation
• Lori Greiner, inventor, investor, entrepreneur, and television personality ^[6]
• Joseph Grendys, CEO of Koch Foods
• George Halas, Jr., former president/owner of the Chicago Bears
• Joseph M. Juran, quality expert
• Stephen McGowan, former CFO of Sun Microsystems
• James Mulvaney, president of the United States National Bank of San Diego and president of the San Diego Padres (PCL)
• Jennifer N. Pritzker, billionaire, and former co-owner of The Marmon Group
• Michael R. Quinlan, McDonald's Corporation Chairman
• Todd Ricketts, co-owner of Chicago Cubs
• John E. Rooney, CEO of US Cellular
• Thomas Schoewe, CFO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• William Scholl, founder of Dr. Scholl's footcare
• Mamie Till, activist, mother of Emmett Till
• John York, co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers

Entertainment

Alumni

• Leslie David Baker, actor (The Office)
• Ian Brennan, creator of Glee
• L. Scott Caldwell, Tony Award-winning actress
• Karla DeVito, singer
• David Draiman, lead singer of Disturbed
• Wendolly Esparza, Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2014
• Mary Gross, actress, comedian ^[7]
• James Iha, The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle guitarist
• Richard Kiley, Emmy-winning actor, singer and narrator (attended)
• Tim McCoy, cowboy actor
• Jennifer Morrison, actress ( House M.D. , Once Upon a Time )
• Joel Murray, actor
• Bob Newhart, Peabody Award-winning actor and comedian, The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart
• Jim O'Heir, actor ( Parks and Recreation ) ^[8]
• David Pasquesi, actor
• Bill Rancic, television personality
• Sosay, professional wrestler
• Meredith Marks, television personality, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ^[9]

Government and politics

Alumni

Activists

• Jerry Harkness, former professional basketball player and civil rights activist ^[10]
• Jerome G. Miller, advocate for alternatives to incarceration and the deinstitutionalization of persons with developmental disabilities
• Mary Morello, progressive activist
• Michael Pfleger, Roman Catholic priest and social activist

Attorneys

• Anita Alvarez, former Cook County State's Attorney
• Richard A. Devine, former Cook County State's Attorney
• Neil F. Hartigan, former Illinois Attorney General, candidate for Governor, former Lt. Governor
• Donald Lee Hollowell, civil rights attorney
• Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General
• Dan K. Webb, Chairman of Winston & Strawn LLP

Cabinet members

• William M. Daley, President Obama's White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton
• Susan Ralston, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor

Judges

• William Joseph Campbell, chief judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[11]
• Ruben Castillo, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[12]
• David H. Coar, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[13]
• John W. Darrah, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[14]
• Thomas R. Fitzgerald, 1st District Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[15]
• Lee M. Jackwig, United States Bankruptcy Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ^[16]
• Virginia Mary Kendall, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[17]
• Howard Thomas Markey, the first Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ^[18]
• Peg McDonnell Breslin, member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1991 and the first woman elected to the Illinois Appellate Court outside of Cook County. ^[19]
• Mary Ann G. McMorrow, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois ^[20]
• Mary Jane Theis, judge, Supreme Court of Illinois ^[21]
• Robert R. Thomas, current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois ^[22]

Legislators

• Harry P. Beam, former U.S. Congressman ^[23]
• Charles A. Boyle, former U.S. Congressman ^[24]
• Emmet Byrne, former U.S. Congressman ^[25]
• Fred Crespo, member of Illinois House of Representatives ^[26]
• Daniel Cronin, former Illinois State Senator ^[27]
• John Cullerton, current Illinois State Senator; President of Illinois State Senate ^[28]
• Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff and former Illinois State Representative ^[29]
• Ed Derwinski, former U.S. Congressman, 1st United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs ^[30]
• Michael Dvorak, former Indiana state representative and St. Joseph County, Indiana Prosecutor ^[31]
• Samuel Epstein, Illinois state representative, lawyer, and physician ^[32]
• John N. Erlenborn, former U.S. Congressman ^[33]
• John G. Fary, former U.S. Congressman ^[34]
• Edward Rowan Finnegan, former U.S. Congressman ^[35]
• Michael Patrick Flanagan, former U.S. Congressman ^[36]
• La Shawn Ford, current member of Illinois House of Representatives ^{[ citation needed ]}
• John J. Gorman, former U.S. Congressman ^[37]
• Mary Jeanne Hallstrom, former member of Illinois House of Representatives
• Shawn Hamerlinck, former Iowa State Senator^{[ citation needed ]}
• Henry Hyde, former U.S. Congressman ^[38]
• Daniel Hynes, current Illinois State Comptroller ^{[ citation needed ]}
• James T. Igoe, former U.S. Congressman ^[39]
• Peter C. Knudson, current Utah State Senator ^[40]
• Gary LaPaille, former Illinois State Senator^{[ citation needed ]}
• Michael Madigan, former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois ^[41]
• William T. Murphy, former U.S. Congressman ^[42]
• Thomas L. Owens, former U.S. Congressman ^[43]
• Lillian Piotrowski, former Illinois State Representative ^[44]
• Mike Quigley, current U.S. Congressman ^[45]
• Trey Radel, former U.S. Congressman ^[46]
• Christine Radogno, former Illinois State Senator; former Republican Minority Leader in the Illinois State Senate ^[47]
• Daniel J. Ronan, former U.S. Congressman ^[48]
• Dan Rostenkowski, former U.S. Congressman ^[49]
• Martin Sandoval, current Illinois State Senator ^[50]
• Ira Silverstein, current Illinois State Senator ^[51]
• James M. Slattery, former U.S. Senator ^[52]
• Rudolph G. Tenerowicz, former U.S. Congressman ^[53]
• Donne Trotter, former Illinois State Senator ^[54]
• Arthur Wilhelmi, former Illinois State Senator ^[55]
• Corinne Wood, former Illinois Lieutenant Governor^{[ citation needed ]}

Other

• Lieutenant General Joseph Carroll, founding director of Defense Intelligence Agency and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
• Nina Kasniunas, Political scientist, author, and professor
• Major General Enrique Méndez, Jr., Army Deputy Surgeon General
• Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer (1998–present); earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Loyola in 1976 ^[56]
• Todd Ricketts, Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee since January 31, 2018
• Edith S. Sampson, US delegate to the United Nations

Journalism

Alumni

• Susan Candiotti, CNN correspondent ^[57]
• Philip Caputo, author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ^[58]
• Susan Carlson, WBBM-TV Chicago news anchor ^[59]
• Shams Charania, sports journalist covering the NBA for The Athletic and Stadium ^[60]
• Robert Jordan, WGN-TV weekend news anchor
• Christina Kahrl, co-founder of Baseball Prospectus, writer for ESPN.com
• Ernie Manouse, TV anchor and producer, PBS
• Bill Plante, CBS White House correspondent
• Jim Quinlan, credited with the story and screenplay for Michael
• Victoria Recano, news anchor
• Mercedes Soler, news anchor for Univision and CNN en Español
• Patricia Thompson, TV and film producer ^[61]

Literature

Alumni

• Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author, poet, teacher ^[62]
• Stuart Dybek, author
• James McManus, author
• John R. Powers, novelist and playwright; author of Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
• Daniel Quinn, author
• Dinesh Sharma, author ^[63]
• Bill Zehme, author

Medical

Alumni

• John L. Keeley Sr., Chicago surgeon who was personal physician to two Chicago cardinals ^[64]
• Bruce Lerman, cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital
• Charlie Pechous, Major League Baseball player and physician ^[65]

Religion

• Mark McIntosh, Professor of Christian Spirituality
• Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, current chaplain of the men's basketball team who became a major media celebrity during the team's 2018 Final Four run

Alumni

• Daniel Coughlin, chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
• Norman Geisler, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina
• Roger William Gries, auxiliary bishop of Cleveland
• Daniel A. Lord, Catholic writer
• Anthony Petro Mayalla, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza ^[66]
• Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and ‘Primate of England and Wales’ (see Archbishop of Westminster for explanation)
• Mar Awa Royel, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
• John George Vlazny, Archbishop of Portland, Oregon

Sports

Alumni

• Lucas Bartlett, professional soccer player ^[67]
• Elliot Collier, professional soccer player
• Clayton Custer, professional basketball player and coach
• Milton Doyle, professional basketball player
• Jack Dwan, former professional basketball player ^[68]
• John Egan, basketball player
• Armando Favela, professional golfer ^[69]
• Eric Gehrig, professional soccer player ^[70]
• Jerry Harkness, former professional basketball player ^[71]
• Alfredrick Hughes, former professional basketball player (1st round pick in 1985 NBA draft) ^[72]
• Les Hunter, former professional basketball player ^[73]
• Donte Ingram, NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks
• Thomas Jaeschke, professional and U.S. Olympic men's volleyball player
• Jeffrey Jendryk, professional and U.S. Olympic men’s volleyball player
• Jack Kerris, former professional basketball player
• Nick Kladis, former professional basketball player, part-owner of White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals
• Cameron Krutwig, professional basketball player
• LaRue Martin, former professional basketball player (# 1 pick in 1972 NBA draft) ^[74]
• Andre Moore, former professional basketball player ^[75]
• Mike Novak, former professional basketball player ^[76]
• Tom O'Hara, former indoor mile world record holder, 1964 Olympian ^[77]
• Mickey Rottner, former professional basketball player
• Vic Rouse, basketball player, made game-winning shot to give Loyola 1963 NCAA championship
• Lenny Sachs, Hall of Fame basketball coach ^[78]
• Blake Schilb, professional basketball player ^[79]
• Eddie Slowikowski, former NCAA All-American runner ^[80]
• Andre Wakefield, former professional basketball player ^[81]
• Phil Weintraub, Major League Baseball player ^[82]
• Brian Wheeler, broadcaster for NBA's Portland Trail Blazers ^[83]

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