Saint Peter's University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Main article: List of Saint Peter's College (New Jersey) people

Saint Peter's has approximately 28,000 living alumni worldwide. Saint Peter's alumni are distinguishing themselves in the fields of arts & entertainment, business, government, law, medicine and sports.

• In the fields of arts and entertainment, Saint Peter's graduates include: Will Durant, 1968 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Ken Jennings, 1979 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical recipient; Mary Ann McGuigan, 1997 National Book Award finalist; and Angela Shapiro-Mathes, former President of Fox Television Studios and TLC.

• In the field of business, Saint Peter's graduates include: Lawrence R. Codey, former President & COO of Public Service Electric & Gas; Joseph R. Gromek, President & CEO of The Warnaco Group and former President & CEO of Brooks Brothers; Thomas P. Mac Mahon, President & CEO, LabCorp; William J. Marino, President & CEO, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey; James Meister, former President & CEO of Kings Super Markets; and Anthony P. Terracciano, Chairman of Sallie Mae.

• In the field of government, Saint Peter's graduates include: Robert Menendez, current United States Senator from New Jersey; Gary J Rich Sr. Monmouth County Freeholder, Robert J. Morris, Anti-communist activist and chief counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security from 1951 to 1953; Thomas F. X. Smith, 38th Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; Joseph Patrick Tumulty, Chief of Staff to President Woodrow Wilson; and United States Representatives Daniel J. Griffin, James A. Hamill, Edward J. Hart, Charles F. X. O'Brien, and Albio Sires.

• In the field of law, Saint Peter's graduates include: Thomas Francis Meaney and Peter G. Sheridan, Judges for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; Reginald Staton '56, former Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court and Saint Peter’s first and only Rhodes Scholar; Chester J. Straub, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Joseph R. Quinn, former Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

• In the field of sports, Saint Peter's graduates include: Keydren Clark, Two-time NCAA basketball scoring champion and seventh all-time leading scorer in NCAA history; Bob Hurley, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame basketball coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey; Richard Rinaldi, former NBA player for the Baltimore Bullets and New York Nets, who, as a senior, averaged 28.6 ppg for the Peacocks; and former MLB relief pitchers Frank Brooks and Víctor Santos.

• Other notable Saint Peter's graduates include: George J. Borjas, the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; Nicholas J. Cifarelli, physician known for starting the first Bioethics Advisory Committee in the United States; John Henning, award-winning TV and radio news reporter in Boston, Massachusetts; and Joseph McGinn, pioneer of minimally invasive cardiac bypass surgery and medical director of The Heart Institute of New York

• Bob Menendez,
  United States Senator, New Jersey

• Joseph Patrick Tumulty,
  White House Chief of Staff to Woodrow Wilson

• Daniel J. Griffin,
  U.S. Representative,
  New York

• Albio Sires,
  U.S. Representative,
  New Jersey's 13th congressional district