The Presidential Search and Screen Committee, named in September 2009, was selected to provide broad representation from across the Seton Hall community.  All of these individuals, whose biographies are below, are knowledgeable about Seton Hall and committed to its Catholic educational mission. Each is drawn from a particular university constituency, and a few belong to more than one.

In addition, Isaacson Miller, an executive search firm, was retained to support and guide the work of the search and screen committee. Susan McGarry Basso, Associate Vice President for Human Resources, will serve as staff support to the committee.

	Joseph LaSala Partner, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter Member, Board of Trustees Executive Committee Member, Board of Regents Joseph LaSala, Esq., is a partner at McElvoy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter. He is a certified civil trial attorney in the state of New Jersey and is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, the U.S. Tax and Claims Courts, a number of district, circuit and appeals courts, as well as the United States Supreme Court. He is a former chairman and treasurer of the Essex County Improvement Authority and received the Distinguished Graduate Award from the School of Law in 1996. The following year he was named the Professional Lawyer of the Year by the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. LaSala serves on the Seton Hall Board of Regents and Board of Trustees, among his many legal and public service commitments over the course of his distinguished career. LaSala received his B.S. from Saint Peter’s College in 1969 and his J.D. from the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1972.
	Francis Lazarus (Vice Chair) Former President (Retired), University of Dallas Member, Board of Regents Francis Lazarus, Ph.D., recently retired from the presidency of the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. He served as president for five years, after serving for eight years as vice president and provost of the University of San Diego. Prior to his position at the University of San Diego, Lazarus was vice president for academic affairs at Marquette University, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton and associate dean of Salem College. He held a number of teaching positions early in his career as a professor of classical literature, including at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Lazarus serves on the Seton Hall Board of Regents. He received his AB. summa cum laude in 1966 from Canisius College and received his M.A. in 1968 and Ph.D. in 1972 at Cornell University.
	Karen Boroff Dean, Stillman School of Business Karen Boroff, Ph.D., is the dean of the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University, a position that she has held since 2000.  Previously, Boroff was the associate dean at the Stillman School.  She joined Seton Hall in 1989 as a member of the faculty of the department of management, where she taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in management, organizational behavior, negotiations, compensation and industrial relations.  She currently serves on several boards, including the board of the New York Society of Security Analysts and Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society.  She is the past president of the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration.  For the past two years, she has also been a religious education teacher for first grade children at Saint Patrick Church in Chatham, New Jersey.
	Monsignor James Cafone Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences Minister to the Priest Community Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Member, Board of Regents Monsignor James Cafone, S.T.D., is a faculty member in the religious studies department and is serving his third three-year term as minister to the priest community of Seton Hall.   He is currently the vice chair of Seton Hall University’s Board of Trustees and is also a member of the University’s Board of Regents. Monsignor Cafone serves on the Human Relations Council and is the chaplain of the Seton Hall Alumni Association. He has served on numerous University committees over the past 40 years. Cafone earned a M.A. in educational administration and supervision from Seton Hall University and a doctorate in Moral and Spiritual Theology (S.T.D.) from the Catholic University of America.
	Albert Cooley, Jr. Student, School of Law Albert Cooley, Jr. is currently a third-year student at the School of Law. He graduated from Seton Hall in 2007 with a B.A. in business administration and was a member of the leadership studies program at the Stillman School of Business. As an undergraduate student, Cooley served on the dean’s Advisory Committee, was a peer adviser in Freshman Studies and was a member of the Judicial Review Board within the Department of Community Development. He has worked as a graduate assistant in the Stillman Student Information Office and is a research assistant to Professor Denis McLaughlin. Cooley currently is chairman of the Law School’s honor council.
	John V. Jacobi Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law and Policy, School of Law Associate Director, Institute of Law and Mental Health Associate Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Health Law and Policy John V. Jacobi, Esq., holds the Dorothea Dix professorship of health law and policy at the School of Law, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1993. In that academic position he concentrates on health finance and access, mental health law and disability law. He has served on numerous University and Law School committees and currently serves as the associate director of both the Institute of Law and Mental Health and the Center for Pharmaceutical Health Law and Policy. He recently returned to teaching from a two-year leave, serving as senior associate counsel to New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine, where he focused on health and human services issues. He has served on numerous governmental advisory agencies and nonprofit boards concerned with issues of health care and access and the rights of people with disabilities. He was previously a fellow in the Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law and an assistant to the commissioner of the New Jersey Public Advocate on health, disability and prisoners’ rights issues.
	Kent Manahan Former Executive Director (Retired), NJN Public Television and Radio Former Senior Anchor (Retired), NJN News Member, Board of Regents Kent Manahan is the former executive director of NJN Public Television and Radio and former senior anchor of NJN News where, for more than two decades, she reported on issues and events that affected residents of the state of New Jersey and the wider region. During that time she received numerous awards in the broadcasting industry, including five Emmys and the Barbara Boggs Sigmund Woman of Achievement Award. Manahan also received the prestigious Caldwell College Presidential Award for her achievements in broadcast journalism, as well as an honorary J.D. from Kean University in 1993 and Stockton College in 1988. A dedicated wife and mother of six, Manahan also serves on the Seton Hall Board of Regents and many other boards and committees.
	Mary McAleer Balkun Chair, English Department, College of Arts & Sciences Mary McAleer Balkun, Ph.D., is a professor of English and chair of the English Department at Seton Hall University. She served as chair of the Faculty Senate from 2005–2007 and is currently co-chair of the Senate’s core curriculum committee and chair of the program review committee. She is the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture, a co-editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry and the author of articles on Sarah Kemble Knight, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. McAleer Balkun holds a M.A. from Seton Hall University and a Ph.D. from New York University.
	W. King Mott Chair, Faculty Senate Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences W. King Mott, Ph.D. has been an associate professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University since 2006 and currently serves as the chair of the Faculty Senate. His academic fields of concentration include gender/queer theory, western political theory, contemporary social and political movements and modern ideology. He has also taught in the women and gender studies program. From 2003-2005, Mott was associate dean for undergraduate curriculum and academic affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences, and served as assistant to the provost from 2002-2003. He was dean of Freshman Studies from 1999-2001. Mott’s professional affiliations include Amnesty International, American Political Science Association, Mankind Project International, American Association of University Professors, Lambda Legal, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, NAACP and Human Rights Campaign.
	Donna M. O’Brien President, Community Healthcare Strategies, LLC Member, Board of Regents Donna M. O’Brien, president of Community Healthcare Strategies, LLC, has a nationally focused consulting practice in healthcare strategy and clinical program development. In this work she has led the development of a new pilot program for the National Cancer Institute’s Community Cancer Centers Program to expand state-of-the-art-cancer care and research to more locations across the United States. Prior to this, O’Brien’s served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Catholic Health and Human Services in New York and as assistant administrator for hospital administration at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She was a member of New York State’s Commission on Healthcare for the Twenty-First Century and currently serves on the Seton Hall Board of Regents.
	Rosario Martha Reyes Urbina Associate Dean of Students, Department of Community Development Rosario Martha Reyes Urbina is currently the associate dean of students in the Department of Community Development at Seton Hall. Reyes Urbina has also served as the director of the Seton Hall Chapter for the National Coalition Building Institute since 1998. She earned a master’s degree in counseling and mental rehabilitation from Marshall University in 1994, and received a bachelor of arts in youth and human services and a bachelor of science in business administration/management from Salem Teikyo University in 1991.
	Steve K. Stoute Former Member, Board of Regents Steve K. Stoute graduated from Seton Hall University in May 2004, with a B.S. in business administration with a concentration in sport management. While at Seton Hall, Stoute competed on the varsity soccer team, was named a Big East Conference academic all-star each of his three seasons and, in his senior year, was selected as the Seton Hall’s Big East Male Scholar Athlete of the Year. Throughout his time as a student at Seton Hall, Stoute was named to the dean’s list each semester, served on the Big East student-athlete advisory committee, was an at-large senator in the Student Senate and also worked for the department of housing and residence life as a resident assistant for two years. After graduation Steve continued to serve his alma mater as the young alumnus member of the Board of Regents.