Profiles of the board's high-powered members

National Catholic Reporter, Jan 31, 2003 by Joe Feuerherd

University of San Diego president Alice Bourke Hayes came to the university after six years as executive vice president and provost and professor of biology at St. Louis University. A native of Chicago, Hayes spent 27 years at Loyola University of Chicago, where she served as vice president for academic affairs (1987-1989), associate academic vice president (1980-1987), dean for the natural sciences (1977-1980), and chairperson of the department of natural science (1969-1977). A biologist with a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Northwestern University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow, she has published numerous books and articles on the natural sciences and on Catholic higher education.

Pamela D. Hayes graduated with honors from Northeastern University in 1975, and from Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, in 1978. Hayes has worked for the State of New Jersey Office of the Public Defender; the Office of Court Administration, Supreme Court, New York County; and the Office for the Special Prosecutor for the New York City Criminal Justice System. In the Kings County, N.Y. (Borough of Brooklyn), District Attorney's Office (1990-1992), Hayes managed the day-to-day prosecution of cases involving sex offenses and child abuse. She is also an assistant professor at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Petra Jimenez Maes graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1973. In 1981 she was appointed to the First Judicial District Court by Gov. Bruce King. Maes was elected by the judges of the First Judicial District Court as chief judge for two terms. She also served on the Governor's Task Force on Children, Youth and Families, the North Central Juvenile Services Committee, the Tri-County Gang Task Force, the Santa Fe County Jail Advisory Committee, and Character Counts in the Santa Fe Leadership Council.

Paul R. McHugh was Henry Phipps Professor and director of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975-2001. McHugh was founder and first director of the Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital, Westchester Division at Cornell. He was chairman of the medical board, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1984-89. From 1992-2001, he directed the Blades Center for Clinical Practice and Research in Alcohol/Drug Dependence at Hopkins. He is a member of the Presidential Council on Bioethics.

Leon E. Panetta was a Democratic congressman from California from 1977-1993. An army veteran and lawyer, Panetta served as Bill Clinton's first budget director and later as the president's chief of staff. Panetta currently co-directs, with his wife Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay. Panetta has drawn some heat as a member of the lay review board: Abortion opponents have criticized the bishops for naming a pro-choice Catholic to the beard.