Daniel Driscoll

Biography

Daniel Driscoll serves in the Rev. Edward A. Monk Malloy, C.S.C., Endowed Rectorship at Sorin Hall.

Dan was born in Rochester, New York and moved to Chatham, New Jersey when he was ten years old.
He attended The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he majored in Social Work and was actively involved with Campus Ministry. Dan taught at Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle, New York. He spent a great deal of time with students on retreats and in liturgies, doing service work, and even whitewater rafting in frigid, wild, early-spring Pennsylvania rivers. It was a grace-filled time, culminating in meeting his future wife, Felicia Leon (a double Domer).

Dan received his Master of Divinity from Notre Dame. After working as Director of Parish Social Ministry for the Diocese of Greensburg, PA, and as an Editor for Ave Maria Press at Notre Dame, he and Felicia founded, together with other parents, Good Shepherd Montessori School in South Bend, work that was to be transformational for them and for the children.

Many things changed when Felicia passed away in 2017 after an eight-week bout with cancer. Dan stayed for five more years at Good Shepherd, then after twenty years at the helm, he moved on to his current role as Rector.

He enjoys painting, having taken up iconography when Felicia died, and he enjoys spending time (when they are in town) with his five children. He has two labrador retrievers, Larkin and Shadow, who are also residents of Sorin.