J. Paul Molloy '61

Paul is the founder and CEO of Oxford House, Inc. (OHI), the 501(c)(3) umbrella organization for more than 2,200 self-run, self-supported Oxford Houses around the country.

After law school, Paul worked on the staff of Vermont Senator Winston Prouty and as his staffer on the Senate Commerce Committee. In 1975, Paul, a recovering alcoholic, started the first Oxford House after the county-run halfway house in which he was living closed.

While living in the first Oxford House, Paul was hired as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, where he helped shape major legislation affecting the environment and the nation's railroads. In 1981, he joined the Chicago law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale.

In 1988, Paul devoted himself full-time to the national expansion of the then-small network of Oxford Houses. Oxford House is listed as a best practice on the federal government's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) and more than 300,000 people have lived in Oxford Houses. Paul resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife, Jane '61, and has five grown children.