Mary Pat Donoghue

Board Secretary

Mary Pat Donoghue serves as Executive Director of the Secretariat of Catholic Education for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Previously she served as Principal of St. Jerome Academy in Hyattsville, Maryland, where she led the effort to move the parish school from near failure to a now-thriving and growing institution. Before then, she served as a Vice Principal and as a teacher in the classroom; since then, she has consulted nationwide with superintendents, pastors, and principals, sharing her experience in teacher formation and supervision, curriculum implementation, and financial stability, in conjunction with the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. Mary Pat holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s in Education Administration from Trinity University, Washington, D.C. A native of the Washington, DC area, she currently resides in Silver Spring, MD. In addition to serving on the board of Catholic Education Partners, Mary Pat also serves on the board of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education.