Mary DiStanislao was named executive vice president at Marquette University in March 2012. She oversees the Office of Administration, Department of Human Resources and Division of Student Affairs. She also facilitates university-wide strategic planning in close association with the president and provost. Prior to assuming the role of executive vice president at Marquette, DiStanislao was senior associate director of athletics and the senior woman administrator at the University of Pennsylvania.
DiStanislao served as an administrator in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and then for the 12 years preceding her departure for Marquette, held leadership positions in the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics at Penn. There, she had direct management responsibilities for more than 100 staff members as part of a department with a budget of approximately $40 million, while also serving as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education. She was also a member of the Provost’s Committee for Academic Planning and Budget.
Her diverse career includes work in private industry and coaching at the Division I level. She was the first women’s basketball coach at Northwestern University, when the sport gained varsity status there in 1975, and was twice named conference coach of the year during her tenure as head women’s basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame in the 1980s.
DiStanislao holds a doctorate in higher education from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, a master of arts in education from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
- Dr. Lea Acord
- Ms. Rana H. Altenburg
- Ms. Cynthia M. Bauer
- Dr. Lori Bergen
- Dr. Robert H. Bishop
- Mr. Roby Blust
- Dr. Margaret Faut Callahan
- Mr. Cas Castro
- Dr. William E. Cullinan
- Dr. Robert J. Deahl
- Dr. Mary DiStanislao
- Dr. Mark J. Eppli
- Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J.
- Dr. William A. Henk
- Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp
- Mr. Joseph D. Kearney
- Mr. John C. Lamb
- Dr. William K. Lobb
- Mr. Thomas S. Mackinnon
- Dr. Gary Meyer
- Dr. L. Christopher Miller
- Mr. Dave Murphy
- Ms. Anne O'Brien
- Dr. John J. Pauly
- Dr. Thomas J. "Toby" Peters
- Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.
- Rev. Philip J. Rossi, S.J.
- Dr. Stephanie Russell
- Mr. Arthur F. Scheuber
- Dr. Jeffrey T. Snell
- Dr. James South
- Mrs. Janice S. Welburn
- Mr. Larry Williams
Quick Facts About Marquette
| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Undergraduate: | 8,113 |
| Postgraduate: | 3,693 |
| Campus: | Urban, approximately 90 acres |
| Athletics: | 16 NCAA Division I teams (Big East) |
| Colors: | Blue and gold |
