Cathy E. Minehan

Cathy Minehan has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to Fordham and to advancing the values of Jesuit education. She has given generously to expand access to a Fordham education, continuing the philanthropic pattern that she and her late husband, E. Gerald Corrigan, Ph.D., GSAS ’65, ’71, established before his passing in 2022.

Minehan broke barriers during her 39-year career with the Federal Reserve; in 1994, she became the first woman to serve as president and CEO of the Boston Federal Reserve and only the second to serve as president at any Federal Reserve Bank. Since retiring from the Federal Reserve System in 2007, Minehan has served on many boards and advisory councils for high-level commercial and nonprofit organizations, including Massachusetts General Hospital, MassMutual Life Insurance Company, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Brookings Institution, the MITRE Corporation, VISA, Bright Horizons, and more. 

Corrigan, a 2013 recipient of the Fordham Founder’s Award, was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs. He created an endowed scholarship fund and an endowed chair in the Gabelli School of Business, both of which are named in his honor. He and Minehan jointly contributed to the Fordham Fund and the Founder’s Undergraduate Scholarship Fund, two key resources for welcoming talented, committed undergraduate students to the University, both of which Minehan has continued to support.