2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient

After 28 years as a university president, the final 17 at Claremont Graduate University, John D. Maguire became president emeritus in 1998 and director/senior fellow in the Institute for Democratic Renewal in the University’s School of Politics and Economics. He and the Institute are engaged full-time in racial and social justice community building projects. He serves on the boards of Union Theological Seminary, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, and as senior advisor to the Claremont Museum of Art. He is co-founder of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards and lectures regularly as a Woodrow Wilson annual visiting fellow. A colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he is a life director of the King Center and served in its initial year (1968-69) as chair of the board. Dr. Maguire was a Fulbright fellow in Scotland in 1953 after graduating from Washington and Lee University. He graduated summa cum laude from the Yale Divinity School, then completed a Yale doctorate in theology and psychiatry. In 1965, while a Wesleyan University faculty member, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Universität Tübingen in Germany, engaged in post-doctoral research.