Mary McAleese
Mary Patricia McAleese, an Irish activist lawyer, scholar, writer, and former politician, was Ireland's eighth president... View More
Mary Patricia McAleese, an Irish activist lawyer, scholar, writer, and former politician, was Ireland's eighth president who served from 1997 to 2011. In 1973, she received her law degree from Queen's University of Belfast, and in 1974, she was admitted to the Northern Ireland Bar. She returned to her alma mater, Queen's, in 1987 to take a position as Director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies after being named Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Penology at Trinity College Dublin in 1975. She was appointed Queen's University of Belfast's first female pro-vice chancellor in 1994. View Less