SI’s President
Fr. Robert T. Walsh, SJ, SI’s 26th President
Fr. Robert T. Walsh, SJ ’68 was named President of St. Ignatius College Preparatory in March 2006, and he took office three months later. Fr. Walsh was born in San Francisco on Aug. 30, 1950, and reared in Westlake, where he attended Our Lady of Mercy. He entered the Society of Jesus after graduating from SI; he studied at Loyola Marymount and Gonzaga Universities, graduating in 1974 with a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy; in 1976 he earned his teaching credential from USF and six years later earned a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He went back to USF to earn a Master’s degree in private school administration in 1990. He has worked as a teacher of French, history and theology at Loyola High School (from 1974 to 1977) and as campus minister and religious studies teacher at SI (from 1981 to 1985) before working as director of novices in Santa Barbara. After a stint as assistant principal at Bellarmine (1990 to 1992), he returned to Loyola High where he served as principal and, later, as president, between 1992 and 2005.