James Donahue

James Donahue joined the Commission in 2006 and was elected Vice Chair in 2011. He is the seventh president of the Graduate Theological Union, and the first GTU alumnus to serve in this position. Before returning to the GTU in 2000, Donahue served for over fifteen years as Professor of Theology and Ethics, Dean of Students and Vice President of Student Affairs at Georgetown University. He has also held faculty and administrative positions at Boston College and Santa Clara University, and has served as an ethics consultant to various organizations, including the Levi Strauss Corporation, the Department of Defense, and the Catholic Health Association. Donahue's primary research areas and teaching interests include professional ethics, religion in public life, and the issues of organizational and professional ethics. He is the co-author of Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practice-based Approach, and is currently writing Religion and Professional Ethics. He is the co-editor of Religion, Ethics and the Common Good. He holds a B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union.