Dorothy Malloy has served Villanova University as its first General Counsel since February of 1989. She was promoted to Vice President and General Counsel in February, 1998, a title she continues to hold. In these capacities Ms. Malloy conducts or oversees the conduct of all legal affairs for Villanova University and advises the University's Board of Trustees, President, officers, deans and directors with respect to a wide variety of legal matters. Ms. Malloy has also served both as an adjunct law professor at Villanova University School of Law, teaching courses on "The Law of Higher Education", and as a Consultor on the Board of Consultors of the Law School.

Prior to joining Villanova, Ms. Malloy served as Assistant General Counsel and then Associate General Counsel for the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an Associate at the Center City offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Malloy also served a Judicial Clerkship with The Honorable Norma L. Shapiro in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Malloy earned her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Michigan (B.A. 1977, Summa Cum Laude) and her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania (J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 1980), where she was named to the Order of the Coif and elected to the Penn Law Review.

Ms. Malloy is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Federal Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Katherine K. Hastings joined Villanova in 2007. She has over twenty years of corporate, compliance and litigation experience in major law firm, government and corporate settings. Before joining Villanova, Ms. Hastings served as a law clerk to the Honorable Norma L. Shapiro in Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to that she was in-house corporate counsel to three different corporations: Kraft Foods, Inc. of Northfield, Illinois; Envirosafe Services, Inc. of King of Prussia, PA (where she was the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary); and IU International Corporation of Philadelphia, PA. She was also an associate for several years in the Business Department of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis.

Ms. Hastings earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan (B.S. 1976) and her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh (J.D. 1980). She is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of Illinois and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Mary Anne Curran joined the office of the Vice President and General Counsel in May 2005 as Executive Secretary. In this position, Ms. Curran provides support to the attorneys in the wide variety of legal issues facing an institution of higher education.

Before joining the Office, Ms. Curran worked at Villanova as a Secretary III in the Human Resources Department and as a Secretary III in the Development Office. Prior to joining Villanova, Ms. Curran worked as an Information Analyst at Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford, CT.

Ms. Curran earned her associate's degree in general arts from Villanova University in 1999 and is pursuing a bachelor's degree from Villanova.