Jim Towey
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Jim Towey was assistant to the President of the United States, and former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from 2002 to May 2006. He is currently president of Saint Vincent College, a small Catholic school in Pennsylvania.
Towey served as legal counsel to Mother Teresa of Calcutta for 12 years, and in 1990 he lived as a full-time volunteer in her home for people with AIDS in Washington, D.C. As her attorney, he helped to ensure people were not using Mother Teresa's name to raise money without her permission, assisted in establishing AIDS clinics and homeless shelters, and coordinated immigration matters for her nuns. He says the experiences motivated him to establish the non-profit organization Aging with Dignity in 1996. The group's Five Wishes document, called "the living will with a heart and soul", is popular among Catholic hospitals.
He served as senior advisor to U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oregon) for ten years, and as director of Florida's health and human services agency under Gov. Lawton Chiles (D).
Towey is a Roman Catholic and member of the Knights of Columbus.[1] He and his wife Mary have five children. Pope John Paul II presented him with a Papal Cross on September 5, 2000, on the third anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa.
He is a graduate of Florida State University and its law school, earning both his Bachelor of Science (1978) and Juris Doctor (1981) degrees from the university.
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- The 50 Most Influential Christians in America
- White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at whitehouse.gov
- Aging with Dignity
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| Preceded by John DiIulio Jr. |
Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives February 1, 2002–May 31, 2006 |
Succeeded by Jay Hein |
