Fr. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., was the founder and longtime regent of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. Walsh spent 40 years at Georgetown and played a role in several significant international events, including relief for the Russian famine of the early 1920s and the Nuremberg trials.

James Ward (1813-April 27, 1895) taught at Georgetown College from 1833-1840, 1843-1850, and 1864-1868.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Washington, D.C. when he was a child and he enrolled in the Washington Seminary (later known as Gonzaga College High School), a Jesuit School. He entered the Jesuit order in 1832. 

President: 1820-1822

Fr. Enoch Fenwick, S.J., served as Georgetown's 12th president from 1820-1822. Fr. Fenwick introduced significant academic reforms, improving Georgetown's academic rigor.

President: 1793-1796, 1806-1808

Fr. Robert Molyneux, S.J., served as Georgetown's second and fifth president from 1793-1796 and 1806-1808. Fr. Molyneux oversaw the beginning of construction on Old North during his first presidency.

James Curley, SJ (1796-1889) was born in County Roscommon, Ireland and came to the U.S. in 1817. 

Pre-Georgetown Career

Jesuit Administrators: 1919-1968

Regents were members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) appointed by the University President, with the approval of the Maryland Provincial, in Georgetown schools which did not have Jesuit Deans.

Functions of the Position of Regent

Charles Constantine Pise (1801-1866) was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and enrolled at Georgetown College in 1812.

Time in the Jesuit Order

In 1815 he entered the Society of Jesus and was one of the scholastics chosen for training in Rome in 1820 (alongside Frs. William McSherry, James Ryder, John Smith, Thomas Mulledy, and George Fenwick); by 1821, however, he had left the Society and returned to the U.S. to care for his mother.