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This is a list of people associated with
Roosevelt University .
Presidents
Current president
Past presidents
Advisory boards
Members of early advisory boards included the following:
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Notable alumni
Arts and entertainment
Literature, news, and academia
Military
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
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
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