Georgetown University has named its 49th president : Seattle University President Eduardo Peñalver will step down from his post in the other Washington and start his term as head Hoya on July 1.

Peñalver, who was voted in unanimously by Georgetown’s board of directors, has been the president of Seattle University since 2021. The job is close to home for him: He was raised in a small town outside of Tacoma by his mother, a school nurse, and his father, a pediatrician who moved to the US from Cuba in 1962. Though he’s the first nonordained person to lead SU (also a Jesuit school) since its founding in 1891, he tells Georgetown in a press release that his Catholic faith “gives meaning to my work.”

Before taking up the helm in Seattle, Peñalver stepped up as the Dean of Cornell Law School

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