"Before taking up the helm in Seattle, Peñalver stepped up as the Dean of Cornell Law School in 2014-making him the first Latino to serve as the dean of an Ivy League law school. He'd earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell, where he met his wife, Seattle University law professor Sital Kalantry. He went on to study philosophy and theology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University before getting his J.D. from Yale Law School."
"This won't be Peñalver's first rodeo in DC: He started his career as a clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. In a Georgetown University press release, Peñalver says that returning to the District feels like a "full-circle moment," and he's looking forward to taking the reins during an "exciting moment in Georgetown's history," as the university expands its Capitol Hill campus and hones what he calls its "commitment to finding innovative solutions to society's most pressing issues.""
Eduardo Peñalver will assume the presidency of Georgetown University on July 1 as its 49th president. He has led Seattle University since 2021 and was voted in unanimously by Georgetown's board of directors. He was raised outside Tacoma by a school nurse mother and a Cuban-born pediatrician father. He was the first nonordained person to lead Seattle University since its 1891 founding. He served as Dean of Cornell Law School beginning in 2014, becoming the first Latino dean of an Ivy League law school. His credentials include a Cornell undergraduate degree, Rhodes study at Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and will take over from Interim President Robert M. Groves.
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