Leadership

Julia Farr, a sixth-generation Washingtonian and third generation Hoya, is the first female executive director of the alumni association. Farr is an attorney, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. She has 17 years of experience as a corporate securities attorney and executive, beginning her legal career at K&L Gates as an associate and later serving as vice president and chief compliance officer for Sotherly Hotels, a public real estate investment trust. In 2010, Farr left the practice of law to build a business in fashion. She opened her eponymous boutique in Washington, D.C. In 2012, she launched the Julia Farr Collection, a U.S.-based women’s apparel design, manufacturing, and sales company focused on the sartorial needs of the professional woman, with a portion of sales donated to women’s and children’s charities.

Since graduating from Georgetown in 1988, Farr has had an extensive history of volunteerism with the university. In addition to serving on the GUAA Board of Governors and as a class ambassador for many years, she served as president of the Georgetown University Alumni Association from 2010 to 2012. During her term, she enhanced opportunities for alumnae to connect with Georgetown and one another and also connected alumni based on special interests and professional affiliations. During her GUAA presidency, she served simultaneously on the university’s Board of Directors, as all GUAA presidents do.

As executive director, Farr oversees the Alumni Association Board of Governors, Career and Lifelong Learning, Law Alumni Relations and Annual Giving, Professional Alliances & Affinity, and Regional Engagement teams. Since arriving back on the Hilltop in 2018, Farr has focused on the Association diversity, equity and inclusion strategy and efforts, spoken across the globe to alumni audiences, and, most recently, led GUAA’s pivot to virtual alumni engagement during the pandemic, offering hundreds of virtual events to thousands of Hoyas. She is the host of 1789 Seconds, a virtual fireside chat series featuring alumni stories and is a frequent contributor to the GUAA Ask the Author series.

Farr lives on the corner of 36th and O and is the proud parent of 3 Hoyas, classes of 2019, 2021, and 2024. She is also the part-time parent of Jack the Bulldog!

Kelly Mulvoy Mangan (SFS’91, Parent’25) graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1991 and has remained connected to Georgetown University and the Alumni Association ever since. She has been a member of the Georgetown Clubs of Boston, Hong Kong, and New York, where she served as President when the John Carroll Awards Weekend came to the city in 1998. She has been a member of the Class of 1991 Committee since graduating, and served as co-chair of their last six reunions. Mangan joined the Board of Governors of the Georgetown University Alumni Association in 1999. She will become the president of the Alumni Association on July 1, 2022.

Mangan practiced law after graduation from Boston College Law School as an associate and partner at Cassin Cassin & Joseph LLP, in New York City. She is now serving her third, three-year term as an elected trustee on the Harrison Central School District Board of Education in New York. Since 2016 she has served as President of the Board of Education, which is responsible for the education of 3,700 students and oversight of a $130 million budget.

Mangan lives in Harrison, NY with her husband Jim, (C’92, L’95), and their three sons: Leo (C’25), Teddy, and Tommy. When she is not driving around the New York tri-state area watching her boys compete in golf tournaments, regattas, and basketball games, she is an active volunteer in the local community, where in addition to her service on the Board of Education, she has taught religion and serves on the parish council at the Church of the Resurrection in Rye, NY.

GUAA President Kelly Mulvoy Mangan (SFS’91, Parent’25) sat down with the GUAA Executive Director, Julia Farr (C’88, Parent’19, ’21, ’24), to discuss the Georgetown University Alumni Association and her experience at the School of Foreign service for the Fall 2022 issue of the Georgetown Magazine.

Check out the full article here.

Presidents

21st Century
2020-2022 Frank Ciatto (B’88, L’94)
2018-2020 Richard M. Hluchan (F’71)
2016-2018 Jeff Chapski (B’91)
2014-2016 George J. Peacock (C’84)
2012-2014 Mary Beth Connell, M.D. (M’89)
2010-2012 Julia Farr (C’88)
2008-2010 Paul C. Besozzi (F’69, L’72)
2006-2008 Philip T. Inglima (C’84, L’88)
2004-2006 Mark Siskin (F’71)
2002-2004 Kathleen A. Baczko (I’68)
2000-2002 John A. Gaberino, Jr. (C’63, L’66)

20th Century
1998-2000 William G. Reynolds (C’79)
1996-1998 Marcia G. Cooke (F’75)
1994-1996 Rory F. Quirk (C’65, G’71, L’80)
1992-1994 Charles R. Fazio (C’57)
1990-1992 Paul Anthony Ritacco (B’64)
1988-1990 Raymond D. O’Brien (C’49, L’51)
1986-1988 W. Dennis Owen (F’51)
1984-1986 Joseph A. Riggs (C’55, M’59)
1982-1984 Francis L. Casey (C’50, L’52)
1980-1982 Joseph DeSesa (C’37)
1978-1980 Harry J. Smith, Jr. (C’41)
1976-1978 John E. Rooney (C’48, L’51)
1974-1976 Harry J. Connolly (C’38)
1972-1974 William T. Dooley, Jr. (C’43)
1970-1972 James C. Shannon, Jr. (C’50)
1968-1970 J. Nevins McBride (C’29)
1966-1968 Louis B. Fine (C’25)
1964-1966 Eugene L. Stewart (C’48)
1962-1964 William S. Catherwood (C’42)
1960-1962 Leo A. Codd (L’22, G’23)
1958-1960 James Butler (C’21)
1956-1958 Eugene P. McCahill (C’21)
1954-1956 Joseph Brennan (C’25)
1952-1954 John J. Tunmore (C’31)
1950-1952 Thomas Egan (C’17)
1948-1950 Thomas C. Mee (C’17)
1944-1948 Thomas A. Dean (C’20)
1940-1944 Martin F. Conboy (1898)
1919-1940 Frank J. Hogan (1902)
1913-1919 Charles DeCourcy (1878)
1907-1913 George Hamilton (1872)
1905-1907 Edward D.White (1863)
1903-1905 Ernest La Place (1880)
1899-1903 Charles A. Hoyt (1857)

19th Century
1897-1899 Martin F. Morris
1895-1897 John T. Doyle
1891-1895 Richard Clarke
1889-1891 Walter S. Cox (1843)
1887-1889 James V. Coleman (1869)
1885-1887 Thomas Semmes (1842)
1883-1885 Charles J Faulkner (1822)
1881-1883 William Corcoran (1811)
1875-1881 Walter S. Cox (1843)

Executive Directors

2018-         Julia Farr (C’88)
2001-2018 William G. Reynolds (C’79)
2000-2001 Paul J. Maloy (F’68)
1997-2000 Patrick J. McArdle (C’72, L’77)
1992-1997 Conan N. Louis (I’73, MS’78, L’86)
1989-1992 John F. Burgess (C’63, MA’66)
1984-1989 John C. Courtin (C’70, L’78)
1969-1984 James P. Reed (C’53)
1964-1968 Bernard A. Carter (C’49)
1938-1964 James S. Ruby (H’27)