List of Roosevelt University people

Last updated December 15, 2023

This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University .

Presidents

Current president

Ali Malekzadehh

Past presidents

Ted Gross^[1]
Charles "Chuck" R. Middleton: the last president
Edward J. Sparling: the first president
Rolf A. Weil^[1]

Advisory boards

Members of early advisory boards included the following:^[2]^[3]^[4]

Notable alumni

Arts and entertainment

Tony Alcantar: actor
Anthony Braxton: musician and composer
Merle Dandridge: Broadway actress and singer
Eddie Harris: jazz musician, saxophonist
Ramsey Lewis: jazz musician, host of Legends of Jazz and The Ramsey Lewis Morning Show, WNUA radio
Mary Ann Pollar: concert promoter, activist
Kate Quigley: comedian
Courtney Reed: Broadway actress and singer
Danitra Vance: comedian (The Second City, Saturday Night Live ) and actress

Literature, news, and academia

Ira Berkow: author and sportswriter, The New York Times
Susan Carlson: news anchor
Parvesh Cheena: actor
Eckhard Gerdes: novelist
Charles V. Hamilton: political science professor and co-author of Black Power
Howard Johnson: former chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Robert Reed: historian known for his expertise on the African American experience in 20th-century Chicago
Harold Horton Sheldon: professor and physicist
Martha M. Vertreace-Doody: poet, author, and teacher

Military

Stephen Iacovelli: U.S. Army Brigadier General
Jacques Paul Klein: USAF Major General

Politics

Melissa Bean (BA): U.S. Representative for Illinois's 8th congressional district, 2005–2011
Leonard F. Becker: Illinois state senator
Jesse Brown: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 1993–97
Carla Hayden: Librarian of Congress and former American Library Association president
Douglas Huff: Illinois politician
Ambassador Jacques Paul Klein ('63, '71, Hon. Dr. 2005): Senior Foreign Service Officer; Under-Secretary-General of the UN; special representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Croatia (UNTAES); Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMBIH); and Liberia (UNMIL)
Mort Kondracke: political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease
Ronnie Lewis, former mayor of Dolton, Illinois ^[5]
Blanche Manning: U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
LeRoy Martin: Chief of Police for the State of Illinois, Central Management Services
Mel Reynolds: politician and Congressman, Illinois 2nd 1993–95
Fred Rice, Jr., Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department
Bobby Rush (BGS): politician and Congressman, Illinois 1st since 1993
Harold Washington (BA): lawyer, 51st Mayor of Chicago (first African American to hold the title), former state representative and state senator

Others

Dankmar Adler: architect of the auditorium building
Sheldon Lavin (born 1932), billionaire owner, CEO and chairman of OSI Group
Louis Sullivan: architect of the auditorium building
Florenz Ziegfeld: founder of Chicago Musical College

Notable faculty:

Rose Hum Lee: first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956^[6]
Mojisola Adeyeye: Director General of NAFDAC, Nigeria; Founding Chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

References

1 2 Kogan, Rick. "REVVING UP ROOSEVELT". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
↑ "ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY – History" (PDF). Roosevelt University Catalog.
↑ University, Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner on behalf of Roosevelt (2014). Roosevelt University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 9781467112475.
↑ University, Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner on behalf of Roosevelt (2014). Roosevelt University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 9781467112475.
↑ Tejada, Gregory (December 8, 2014). "Educator was Suburb's First Black Official". The Chicago Tribune – via Newspapers.com.
↑ ""Women . . . on the Level with Their White Sisters": Rose Hum Lee and Butte's Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century". Women's History Matters. Montana Historical Society. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Kogan, Rick. "REVVING UP ROOSEVELT". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-08-11.

[2] "ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY – History" (PDF). Roosevelt University Catalog.

[3] University, Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner on behalf of Roosevelt (2014). Roosevelt University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 9781467112475.

[4] University, Laura Mills and Lynn Y. Weiner on behalf of Roosevelt (2014). Roosevelt University. Arcadia Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 9781467112475.

[5] Tejada, Gregory (December 8, 2014). "Educator was Suburb's First Black Official". The Chicago Tribune – via Newspapers.com.

[Women's_History_Matters-6] ""Women . . . on the Level with Their White Sisters": Rose Hum Lee and Butte's Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century". Women's History Matters. Montana Historical Society. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

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