Jo Ann Rooney (GrEd’05) has been named Loyola University of Chicago’s  24th president. A lawyer, Dr. Rooney has a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously she was president of Spalding University, a private, Catholic, doctoral-level university in Louisville, Kentucky, and Mount Ida College, a college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a trustee of Regis University, a Jesuit institution in Denver.