John Jay College of Criminal Justice - Notable People

Notable People

Alumni
  • Dr. Henry Lee (BS '72) - forensic scientist
  • Kimberly Amato (MA) - actress and writer
  • Petri Hawkins-Byrd (BS '89) - Judge Judy bailiff
  • Miguel Martinez (BS) - former member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on 14 July 2009. He pled guilty to three conspiracy charges on July 16.
  • Marcos Crespo (BA) - New York State Assemblyman representing district 85.
  • Eva Norvind (MA) - actress and director
  • Imette St. Guillen - a graduate student, murdered in February, 2006, studying criminal justice; a scholarship was created in her name
  • Dorothy Uhnak (BA) - writer
  • Jennings Michael Burch - Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel "They Cage the Animals at Night" which is a memoir of that period of his life.
  • Pauley Perrette Actor, Singer; best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCIS
Faculty
  • Anthony Carpi- winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2011
  • Jane Katz - competitive swimmer and member of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  • David M. Kennedy, author of Don't Shoot (2011), professor of criminology
  • John Matteson - winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for the biography Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
  • Kevin Nadal - notable Filipino American professor, comedian, and author. Has been featured on the O'Reilly Factor and History Channel
  • Rosalie Purvis - avant-garde theater director and choreographer
  • Mike Wallace - co-author of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Administration
  • The president of John Jay College is Jeremy Travis. He became the fourth president of John Jay College on August 16, 2004.
  • Travis succeeds Gerald W. Lynch, who had been appointed as acting president in 1975, and then was named the third president in 1977. After 30 years as president, Lynch retired in 2004 as having tenured the longest senior-level administration in City University of New York history.
Presidents
  1. Leonard E. Reisman, 1964–1970
  2. Donald Riddle, 1970–1975
  3. Gerald W. Lynch, 1975 - 1977 (acting), 1977–2004
  4. Jeremy Travis, 2004 - current

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