The Austin & Ann O'Malley Chair in Bioethics

An endowed chair provides the opportunity for the University to appoint a professor recognized as a prestigious scholar. It brings to the University's students an excellent teacher who inspires confidence by an outstanding record of scholarship.

This chair bears the names of Austin and Ann O'Malley, named after the parents of Fr. Thomas O'Malley, SJ, the former President of LMU.  The Chair exists due to the generosity of Peter and Annette O'Malley, and Rollie and Terry O'Malley Seidler. These four are great friends of Loyola Marymount University. They have been kind in their ongoing support. And while their O'Malley roots go back to Cong, the neck which cuts between Loch Corrib and Loch Mask, there past the ruined abbey, and Ashford Castle, the commonality of the O'Malley name is a happy accident.

The Chair is a sign of the O'Malley/Seidler generosity. It is part of this pattern of Chairs in ethics which marks Loyola Marymount University. Thus, the Casassa Chair, in the College of Liberal Arts, dealing with social values; the Hilton Chair in Business Ethics; the Von der Ahe Chair in Ethics and Communication; and the O'Malley Chair in Bioethics.  The current holder of the O'Malley Chair is James J. Walter, PhD.