List of John Carroll University people

This is a list of people associated with John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. This includes faculty, alumni, staff, and former university Presidents. John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area in the United States. The university was founded as Saint Ignatius College by the Society of Jesus. A member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, John Carroll was founded in 1886. The University enrolls approximately 4,000 students per year.

Alumni

Media

• Mary Ann Ahern - political reporter, NBC5 Chicago
• Paisley Dodds - AP London Bureau Chief
• Josh Kolodny - Radio personality and producer
• Tim Russert - former NBC News Washington Bureau Chief; host and moderator of Meet the Press; the University's Department of Communications and Theatre Arts was renamed in his honor May 2009^[1]

Government

• Sara Bloomfield - Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (M.A. from John Carroll University)
• Frank D. Celebrezze I - politician; brother of Anthony Celebrezze
• Anne C. Conway - Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• John Cranley - Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
• Timothy J. DeGeeter - State Representative, Ohio Legislature
• Timothy Grendell - member, Ohio Senate
• Mike Hope - State Representative, Washington State Legislature
• Donald J. McConnell - former United States Ambassador to Eritrea
• Tom Murphy - former Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Mary Rose Oakar - former Congresswoman (M.A. from John Carroll University)
• Jon Powers - politician, U.S. Army Captain, and founder of War Kids Relief
• Paweł Wojciechowski - Polish economist; former Polish Minister of Finance

Military

• Ronald E. Dziedzicki - '92G, Major General (U.S. Army Reserves) 3rd Medical Command Fort Gillem, Georgia; COO for University Hospitals Case Medical Center
• Joseph T Ellis - Brigadier General (United States Army, Transportation Corps, retired), B.S. Business Management
• Carter Ham - former General, United States Army, serving as Commanding General, U.S. Army, Europe
• John D. Lavelle - General, United States Air Force; 4 stars restored by President Barack Obama, 2010
• Robert Stall - Major General, United States Army Reserve, Commanding General, 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training)
• Carl E. Walz - United States colonel (Ret.) and astronaut (M.S. from John Carroll University)

Business

• James C. Boland, former vice chairman of Ernst & Young; board member of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Sherwin-Williams, Invacare and DDR Corp.
• John Boler - Chairman, President and CEO of Boler Co.
• Jack Breen - former CEO of Sherwin-Williams
• Bob Dickinson - former CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines
• Charles Dolan - founder of Cablevision and HBO
• Timothy Donahue - former Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel
• Howard W. "Hoddy" Hanna, III - Chairman and CEO of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services Inc.
• Richard Kramer - CEO of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company ^[2]
• Kirsten Marriner - Chief Human Resources Officer of Omnicare
• James Myers - CEO of PETCO
• Kathleen O'Neil - former EVP; advisor to the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Nicholas Orlando - co-owner and President of Orlando Baking Company, 1970-2004^[3]
• John Pellegrene - former EVP Marketing, Target Corporation
• Michael Petras - CEO of HGI Global Holdings Inc., former President & CEO of GE Global Lighting & Industrial
• John Rooney - former President and CEO of U.S. Cellular

Sports

• Graham Armstrong - American football player
• Tom Arth - professional football player, Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers, head coach for John Carroll University
• David Caldwell - General Manager, Jacksonville Jaguars
• Nick Caserio - Director of Player Personnel, New England Patriots
• Enrique Ecker - former NFL player
• London Fletcher-Baker - professional football player, St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Redskins
• Peter Goodwin - former Dean, World's Strongest Man
• Josh McDaniels - Offensive Coordinator of the New England Patriots, former head coach for the Denver Broncos
• Brian Polian - Head Coach, Nevada Wolf Pack
• Chris Polian - former Vice President and General Manager, Indianapolis Colts
• Chuck Priefer - Assistant Coach, NFL
• Greg Roman - Offensive Coordinator, Buffalo Bills
• Don Shula - professional football player and Hall of Fame coach, Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins
• Carl Taseff - professional football player and coach, Baltimore Colts, Buffalo Bills, and Miami Dolphins
• Tom Telesco - General Manager, San Diego Chargers
• Jerry Schuplinski - Offensive Quality Control, New England Patriots
• Dave Ziegler - Director of Pro Personnel, New England Patriots

Religion

• Neil Buckon, D.D. - Episcopal Vicar for the West Coast
• Rev. Timothy P. Kesicki, S.J. - President of the Jesuit Conference of the Society of Jesus
• Donald Edmond Pelotte - Bishop, Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico
• Anthony Edward Pevec - retired Auxiliary Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
• Anthony Pilla - retired Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

Academia

• Philip C. Bevilacqua - Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State University
• George J. Bosl - Chairman, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Leonard Calabrese -Rheumatologist and internationally recognized researcher, Cleveland Clinic
• James Danko - President, Butler University; former Dean, Villanova University, Villanova School of Business
• Paul A. Fleury - Dean, Yale University School of Engineering
• John Hardon - Jesuit priest, theologian, and intellectual
• Beth LaGamba - Golden Apple Award winner 2003
• John G. Peters - President, Northern Illinois University
• Fred Prestello - President, LeMoyne College
• Andrew P. Roth - President, Notre Dame College of Ohio

Arts and entertainment

• Elizabeth Becka (aka Lisa Black) - mystery author
• Kurt Broz - award-winning writer, actor (The Slasher, Garbage Head, The White Russian)
• Eric Carmen - singer, musician
• Brian P. Cleary - author of more than 25 children's books
• Jack Riley - comedic actor

Other

• David Ferrie - alleged by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in assassination of John F. Kennedy

Faculty

• Denise Ben-Porath, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology
• George Bilgere - poet
• Francesco Cesareo - President of Assumption College, former professor of history at John Carroll University
• Vincent Dethier - insect physiologist and entomologist
• Charles Geschke - co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.^[4]
• Sarah Willis - writer and novelist

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