Loyola Provost and Senior Vice President Cheryl Moore-Thomas, Ph.D., named to The Daily Record’s Top 100 Women list
Cheryl Moore-Thomas, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president at Loyola University Maryland, was named to The Daily Record’s 2026 list. The list recognizes “high-achieving Maryland women who are making an impact through their leadership, community service, and mentoring,” according to The Daily Record. Winners are selected by past Top 100 Women honorees and business leaders.
“Dr. Moore-Thomas exemplifies the epitome of leadership, scholarship, and advocacy. The work she has undertaken in advancing the heart of our academic institution has been transformational,” said Terrence M. Sawyer, J.D., president of Loyola. “A distinguished scholar with deep connections to Loyola University and Baltimore, Dr. Moore-Thomas is also a compassionate mentor who tirelessly invests in the personal and professional development of students and colleagues. She is universally revered throughout the community, and I am grateful to have her as a member of my leadership team at this moment in Loyola’s history.”
Moore-Thomas’ title expanded from provost to provost and senior vice president in spring 2025. She was named provost and vice president for academic affairs in 2023 after serving in the role in an interim capacity for almost two years. Previously, she served as the University’s inaugural chief equity and inclusion officer, associate vice president for graduate academic affairs and diversity, associate vice president for faculty affairs and diversity, chair of the education specialties department, and as associate dean of the School of Education.
After joining the Loyola faculty as an assistant professor of education in 2001, Moore-Thomas earned tenure in 2007 and was promoted to full professor of education in 2017. She began her career as a teacher and school counselor in Montgomery County Public Schools.
Author of the book, College and Career Readiness: A Guide for School Counselors K-12, published in 2019, Moore-Thomas received Loyola’s inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2017. She has served on the boards of Marian House, Archbishop Borders School, and the Carroll County Community College Psychology Department Advisory Board.
A longtime resident of Baltimore, Moore-Thomas earned her doctorate in counselor education from the University of Maryland at College Park and both her bachelor’s degree in elementary education summa cum laude and her master’s degree in school counseling from Loyola. Two of her siblings and her father also graduated from Loyola.
This marks the second time that Moore-Thomas has landed on The Daily Record’s Top 100 Women list after being recognized for 2024.
Other Loyola alumni who were named to the Top 100 Women list this year are:
- Jill P. Carter, ’88, Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals
- Erin Lamb, ’00, M.S. ’02, president and CEO of Gateway Maryland
- Joye (Smith) Sistrunk, ’99, principal and founder of Premier Group