This is a list of people associated with Roosevelt University.
Presidents Current president Ali Malekzadehh
Past presidents
Ted Gross Charles "Chuck" R. Middleton: the last president Edward J. Sparling: the first president Rolf A. Weil
Advisory boards Members of early advisory boards included the following:
Marian Anderson Pearl Buck Ralph Bunche Albert Einstein Marshall Field Thomas Mann Gunnar Myrdal Eleanor Roosevelt Albert Schweitzer
Notable alumni
Arts and entertainment
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 Mary Ann Pollar: concert promoter, activist Kate Quigley: comedian Courtney Reed: Broadway actress and singer Shel Silverstein: musician, poet, and author Danitra Vance: comedian (The Second City, Saturday Night Live) and actress
Literature, news, and academia
Ira Berkow: author and sportswriter, The New York Times Susan Carlson: news anchor Parvesh Cheena: actor 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 Martha M. Vertreace-Doody: poet, author, and teacher Rick Yancey: novelist
Military
Jacques Paul Klein: USAF major general
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 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
Dankmar Adler: architect of the auditorium building Sheldon Lavin (born 1932), billionaire owner, CEO and chairman of OSI Group Louis Sullivan: architect of the auditorium building Florenz Ziegfeld: founder of Chicago Musical College
Notable faculty Mojisola Adeyeye: director general of NAFDAC, Nigeria; founding chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences Rose Hum Lee: first woman and first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed 1956
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