[1] Before assuming the presidency, he served as an assistant dean and associate professor at College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit institution in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Linnane entered the Society of Jesus in 1977 and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on June 14, 1986.
in government from Georgetown University in 1981 before undertaking divinity studies at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, where he received an M.Div.
He served as assistant dean at Holy Cross from 2003 to 2005 and was named a Loyola College Trustee in 2000.
Linnane has overseen the opening of the Ridley Athletic Complex as well as renovation and expansion of Donnelly Science Center, the building of Thea Bowman Hall, the expansion and renovation of Loyola/Notre Dame Library, the opening of the McClure Tennis Center, and the groundbreaking for the Miguel B. Fernandez Family Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning, which opened in Fall 2021.
He launched and completed Loyola's first comprehensive fundraising campaign, Bright Minds, Bold Hearts, and he provided and inspired the vision for Messina, Loyola's distinctive living learning program.