Patrick J O'Connor Chair

Patrick J. O'Connor is the current chairman of Temple University's Board of Trustees, a member of the Board of Consultors at Villanova Law School, and co-founder of the multinational law firm Cozen O'Connor. O'Connor earned his Bachelor's degree in History and Government at King's College in 1964 and his Juris Doctorate from Villanova Law School in 1967. He was a Temple Trustee between 1971 and 1984, before being appointed to the Board again in 2001 and elected chair in 2009. O'Connor is a specialist in contract litigation and has been recognized for a number of years as one of Philadelphia's "Super Lawyers." He is currently the secretary of the Penn-sylvania Society, which has sponsored an annual New York City retreat for influential Pennsylvania politicos every December since 1899. O'Connor is also the chairman and only "interested" member of the board of BNY Mellon Funds Trusts, a board member of Crowley Chemical Company, chairman of Franklin Security Bank and on the advisory board of the Litigation Counsel of America. O'Connor's firm Cozen O'Connor has recently started a Public Strategies outfit, and O'Connor is currently on Mitt Romney's Pennsylvania Finance Committee.