List of Roosevelt University people

This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University.

Presidents

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

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
Courtney Reed: Broadway actress and singer
Danitra Vance: comedian (The Second City, Saturday Night Live) and actress

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

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): special representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Liberia with the rank of Under-Secretary-General
Mort Kondracke: political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease
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
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

Notable faculty:

Rose Hum Lee: first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956[5]
Mojisola Adeyeye: Director General of NAFDAC, Nigeria; Founding Chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

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""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. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

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