• The mission of DePaul's Office of Alumni Relations is to provide current and future alumni a lifelong connection to the DePaul University community—building relationships that foster affinity, loyalty and support of the university and its Vincentian mission. The office offers numerous opportunities to help its alumni stay connected with each other and the university.

Prominent alumni can be found in every industry:

• Notable DePaul alumni working in government include: Chicago mayors Richard M. Daley (LAS '65, JD '68) and the late Richard J. Daley (LLB '33); Chicago Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey (JD '82); Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown (MBA '81); City of Chicago Commissioner of Human Resources Homero Tristan (JD '98), and the late Cook County Board President John Stroger (JD '65).

• Business leaders with DePaul degrees include: ComEd CEO Frank Clark (COM '72, JD '76); Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. CEO Patrick J. Moore (COM '82); Driehaus Capital Management CEO Richard Driehaus (COM '65, MBA '70); Navistar International Corp. CEO Daniel Ustian (COM '73); W.W. Grainger CEO James T. Ryan (MBA '99); Tandy Co./Radioshack CEO; and President Leonard Roberts and Kellogg Co. Chairman James Jenness (COM '69, MBA '71).

• DePaul alumni in the arts include: actor John C. Reilly (THE '87); actresses Gillian Anderson (THE '90) and Monique Coleman (THE '03); the late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Perle (MUS '38); Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Executive Director Criss Henderson (THE '86); and Chicago Children's Choir Artistic Director Josephine Lee (MUS '97).

• More than 250 judges throughout the Chicago metropolitan area are graduates of the College of Law and other schools and colleges at DePaul, including Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke (SNL '76).

• DePaul alumni are well represented throughout the Chicago-area workforce. Top corporate employers for DePaul graduates include: Abbott Laboratories, Ernst & Young, Hewitt Associates, General Electric, Harris Bank, Deloitte, CNA Insurance, Target, Chicago Board of Education, Bank of America and US Cellular.

• The top five states with the largest number of DePaul alumni are: Illinois, California, Florida, Indiana and Wisconsin.

• The Office of Alumni Relations supports seven regional chapters— Arizona, Chicagoland, Denver, Detroit, New York City, Southern California and Washington D.C.— and regularly holds alumni events in cities throughout the United States. The office also supports linkages to alumni contacts in more than 10 international areas, including Hong Kong, Thailand, Brazil, Bahrain, Greece and Germany.

DePaul's Office of Alumni Relations Web site is alumni.depaul.edu and its phone number is (800) 437-1898.