Rev. Gregory J. O鈥橫eara, S.J., is the rector of the 蜜桃影像 Jesuit Community. Father O鈥橫eara took office in May 2020. 

Father O鈥橫eara has also returned to the faculty at 蜜桃影像 Law School, where he was an associate professor and three-time recipient of the James D. Ghiardi Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. He left Marquette in 2013 to serve as the rector of the Jesuit community at Creighton University until 2019, where he also served as a professor of law at Creighton University Law School. He recently completed a sabbatical at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in the Center for the Study of Law and Society, where he researched law and sociology and questions of legal ethics.

Father O鈥橫eara has a bachelor鈥檚 degree from the University of Notre Dame and holds law degrees from the University of Wisconsin and New York University. He studied theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His prior legal experience includes working as an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee County. He has also served as an expert witness on issues of legal ethics. His areas of research include legal ethics, criminal procedure and questions of legal interpretation.