List of Lehigh University people

This is a list of Lehigh University people, including former presidents, faculty, and alumni of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Presidents No. Name Tenure Notes 1. Henry Coppée 1866–1875 Mexican–American War veteran and president of the Aztec Club of 1847. Christmas Hall renovated, Packer Hall and president's house constructed. 2. John McDowell Leavitt 1875–1880 Episcopal priest, lawyer and journalist. Linderman Library constructed. 3. Robert Alexander Lamberton 1880–1893 Lawyer. Coppee Hall and Chandler-Ullmann constructed. Phi Beta Kappa founded. 4. Thomas Messinger Drown 1895–1904 Created MIT's chemical engineering program. Led school through Panic of 1893. Williams Hall constructed. - William H. Chandler 1904–1905 Chandler, a professor at the university, served as acting president after Drown's sudden death during a surgery. 5. Henry Sturgis Drinker 1905–1920 Class of 1871, first alumnus to hold position. Fritz Lab, Drown Hall, Coxe Lab, Taylor Hall, Taylor Gym, Taylor Stadium, and Lamberton Hall constructed. Split school into colleges. - Natt M. Emery 1920–1922 Drinker resigned in 1920. His vice president, Natt M. Emery, served as acting president until 1922. 6. Charles Russ Richards 1922–1935 Graduate school opened to women, Alumni Memorial constructed. 7. Clement C. Williams 1935–1944 University of Iowa's dean of engineering. Richards and Drinker dorms built. Retired in 1944. 8. Martin Dewey Whitaker 1946–1960 Manhattan Project alumni. Dravo, McClintic-Marshall, and Centennials I dorms built. Whitaker Lab built. 9. Harvey A. Neville 1961–1964 First and only elected president. 10. Deming Lewis 1964–1982 Bell Labs alumnus. Maginnes Hall, Whitaker Lab, Mart Science and Engineering Library, Sinclair Lab, the Seeley G. Mudd Building, Neville Hall, Rathbone Dining Hall, Centennial II, Brodhead, Trembley Park, Saucon Village dorms, and the Philip Rauch Field House, and the Stabler center constructed. 11. Peter Likins 1982–1997 Purchased Mountaintop Campus from Bethlehem Steel. Demolished Taylor Stadium to make room for Rauch and Zoellner Halls. Resigned to become an advisor to George H. W. Bush. - William C. Hittinger 1997–1998 Class of 1944. A 22-year veteran of the board of trustees. Selected as interim president after Likins resigned. 12. Gregory C. Farrington 1998–2006 Helped raise $250 million for the endowment of professors as well as another $75 million for the recruitment of new professors. 13. Alice P. Gast 2006–2014 First female president. Opened Lehigh's Stabler Campus. in 2010 named to the post of science envoy by Hillary Clinton. Resigned to be named president of the Imperial College London. - Kevin L. Clayton 2014–2015 Alumnus from large family of alumni, 22-year veteran of the board of trustees. 14. John D. Simon 2015–2021 Former provost of the University of Virginia. Established the College of Health. SouthSide Commons, Singleton, Hitch, and Maida dorms constructed. 15. Joseph J. Helble 2021–present Class of 1982. Renamed Packer Hall to Clayton Hall. Lehigh's Business Innovation Building constructed.

Alumni

Academia David Bader (BSCompE, 1990; MSEE, 1991), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and former Georgia Tech professor Anthony G. Collins (D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), former Clarkson University president Peter Feaver (BA, 1983), Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations James D. Foley (BSEE, 1964), Georgia Tech professor and co-author, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice Kenneth French (Mech. E., 1976), Dartmouth College finance department chairman and American Finance Association president Robert M. Gordon (born 1947) Robert L. Ketter, former University of Buffalo president Andrew H. Knoll (1973), Harvard University paleontologist and geologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences Ted London (BS Mech. Eng 1985), Base of the Pyramid expert at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and William Davidson Institute senior research fellow Robert J. Nemiroff (1987), Michigan Technological University professor Paul C. Paris (1955), Washington University in St. Louis professor emeritus Walter C. Pitman, III (1956), Columbia University professor emeritus and expert on sea floor spreading James R. Rice (1962), Harvard University physicist Herman Schneider (1894), University of Cincinnati former president and developer of cooperative education James E. Talmage (Geology, 1884), University of Utah, LDS religious leader John Texter (1949), Eastern Michigan University professor emeritus, author, inventor, Paul Torgersen (B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953) Amit H. Varma (Ph.D. Civil Eng., 2001), Purdue University Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering

Architecture

Roland E. Borhek (1883), architect Wallis Eastburn Howe (1889), architect

Business

William Amelio (BS Chem. Eng., 1979), Avnet CEO and former Lenovo CEO Patrice Banks, Girls Auto Clinic founder and author Tom Bayer, Reserve Bank of Vanuatu director Bob Born (1944), Just Born president William Butterworth, John Deere president and chairman Steve Chang, Trend Micro co-founder and former CEO Stacey Cunningham (BS Industrial Engineering, 1996), 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange Jack Dreyfus (1934), Dreyfus Fund founder Cathy Engelbert (1986), first female CEO of Deloitte and first commissioner of the WNBAHall of Fame Member Bios 1993, Collingswood High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Accessed June 5, 2016. "Cathy Engelbert: Cathy is known to be the only Collingswood High athlete to achieve All-South Jersey honors in three sports." Murray H. Goodman, real estate developer Eugene Grace (1899), former Bethlehem Steel president Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder Marc Holtzman (1982), Barclays Capital vice chairman and Kazkommertsbank chairman Lee Iacocca (Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former Chrysler chairman Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), Avaya CEO Reginald Lenna (BS Industrial engineering, 1936), Blackstone Inc. CEO John E. McGlade, Air Products chairman, president, and CEO Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896), McIlhenny Company CEO] Henry H. Minskoff, real estate developer John R. Patrick (BS Electrical engineering, 1967), former IBM vice president Joseph R. Perella (BS Business & Economics 1964), former investment banking chairman at Morgan Stanley Paul Zane Pilzer (BA Journalism 1974), economist Barry Rosenstein (BA, 1981), hedge fund manager Fredrick D. Schaufeld (BA Government 1981), entrepreneur and venture capital investor Tsai Shengbai (1919), textiles industry Fred Trump Jr. (1960), pilot and executive at the Trump Organization; older brother of President Donald Trump Fred Trump III, author and advocate for people with disabilities; nephew of President Donald Trump Robert Zoellner (BS 1954), investor and stamp collector

Entertainment

Dick Berg (1942), screenwriter Jim Davidson (1985), actor, Pacific Blue Brooke Eby, business development manager and social media personality Paul Guilfoyle (1972), actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Maria Jacquemetton (BA English, 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of Mad Men Romy Mars, actress and singer, daughter of Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars Don Most (1972), actor, Happy Days (attended but did not graduate) Ian Riccaboni, host of All Elite Wrestling's Ring of Honor Louis Clyde Stoumen (1939), Academy Award-winning director and producer

Journalism and literature

Martin Baron (BA Journalism and MBA, both 1976), Washington Post editor and former Boston Globe editor Tracy Byrnes (1993), Fox Business television reporter William E. Coles, Jr. (BA English, 1953), novelist and professor Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist, and writer of fiction and drama Robert Gibb (MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor Michael Golden (1971), The International Herald Tribune publisher and vice chairman of The New York Times Company William P. Gottlieb (BS business and economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist Edwin Lefèvre (1893), one of the first journalists specialized on covering business David A. Randall (English, 1928), book dealer and librarian Len Roberts (PhD English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor Stephanie Ruhle (1997), MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent Michael Smerconish (BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator Andrea Tantaros (2001), former Fox News Channel co-host and political contributorOn Air Personalities Les Whitten (BA English and Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist

Law

Edward N. Cahn (1955), United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge; namesake of Edward Cahn Federal Building and Courthouse Robert L. Clifford (1946), New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice James Cullen Ganey (1920), United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge Ronald A. Guzman (1970), United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge Alina Habba (2005), attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump Edwin Kneedler (1967), deputy solicitor general of the United States Paul Lewis Maloney (1972), United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan judge Malcolm Muir (1935), United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania judge Maryellen Noreika (1988),United States District Court for the District of Delaware judge Donald F. Parsons (1973), Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware vice chancellor Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), United States District Court for the Central District of California judge

Medicine

Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist Frank L. Douglas, biomedical industry Stephen K. Klasko, Jefferson Health CEO Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and television commentator Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare

Military

Ralph Cheli (1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II General Timothy D. Haugh (BA 1991), USAF, director, National Security Agency Colin J. Kilrain (1982), U.S. Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, military attache to Mexico, PACCOM Special Ops commander, NATO Special Ops commander Daniel J. O'Neill (MS, c. 1987), US Army major general David M. Peterson (1915), fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and U.S. Army Air Service credited with six victories, twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross Edwin H. Simmons USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC chief historian Franklin C. Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967), U.S. Air Force Reserve and military analyst John H. Tilelli, Jr. (MBA 1972), U.S. Army vice chief of staff

Politics

Pongpol Adireksarn (1964), deputy prime minister of Thailand William David Blakeslee Ainey, U.S. congressman Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Aramco chairman Carville Benson (1890), U.S. congressman William A. Collins, Connecticut state representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut Charlie Dent (MPA, 1993), U.S. congressman Geoff Diehl (1992), Massachusetts House of Representatives member Clarence Ditlow III (BS Chemical Engineering), advocate for automotive safety Manuel V. Domenech (1888), Ponce, Puerto Rico member and treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Lori Ehrlich (1985), Massachusetts House of Representatives member Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and Duke University professor