Thomas P. O'Malley

Thomas P. O'Malley S.J., Ph.D.

13th President of Loyola Marymount University
In office 1991–1999
Preceded by	James N. Loughran, S.J., Ph.D.
Succeeded by	Robert B. Lawton, S.J., Ph.D.
President of John Carroll University
In office 1980–1988
Preceded by	Henry Birkenhauer, S.J.
Succeeded by	Michael Lavelle, S.J.

Personal details
Born	March 1, 1930 Milton, Massachusetts
Died	November 4, 2009 Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Boston College Fordham University
Profession	Jesuit, academic

Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., Ph.D. (March 1, 1930 - November 4, 2009) was an American Jesuit and academic. O'Malley was the president of John Carroll University from 1980 until 1988 and Loyola Marymount University from 1991 until 1999. He later became a professor at Boston College after leaving Loyola Marymount in 1999.

Thomas O'Malley was born to Irish immigrant parents in Milton, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree in classics from Boston College in 1951 and his master's degree from Fordham University in 1953.

O'Malley entered the Society of Jesus through the Jesuits' former Shadowbrook novitiate in Lenox, Massachusetts. He completed his training at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and was formally ordained a Jesuit Roman Catholic priest in 1961.

He obtained his doctorate in early Christian theology and literature from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, which was known as the Catholic University of Nijmegen at the time.