Stephen M. Wolfe graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1967. While obtaining his MBA from Loyola University Chicago, he began a 30-year career at The Northern Trust Company, which took Wolfe and his family to Hong Kong in the 1970s and then London in the 1980s. After returning to Chicago in 1990, he was instrumental in establishing Northern’s Wealth Management Group before retiring in 2000. Wolfe has since been an active board member of several not-for-profit cultural organizations, an executive in residence at DePaul University’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, and board chair of the Thayer Brook Fund.

Prior to being elected to the Board of Governors of the Georgetown University Alumni Association (GUAA) in 2001, Wolfe was an alumni interviewer in Hong Kong, London, and Chicago. He served on the committee for the 2006 John Carroll Weekend Chicago. Wolfe was actively involved with Georgetown’s last two capital campaigns as a volunteer, and more recently, with the Office of Advancement. As treasurer of GUAA, he focused on strategic financial planning and the renovation of the Alumni House.

Wolfe met his wife, Gina Wentzel (B’68), at Georgetown and they were married after her graduation. They have lived together in Chicago since 1969. They have two children: Cathleen, who lives in Chicago, and Michael, who lives in Seattle with his wife, Maria, and their son, Kurt.