John Edward McGinty (1946 – October 14, 2011) was an American securities analyst and investment banker in the New York City and Chicago from 1970 to 2011.
In 1968, he enlisted in the U. S. Army reserves and completed basic training as a chaplain's assistant prior to matriculating at the University of Chicago, where in 1970 he gained a master's degree in business administration.
He continued in this role after the family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts when McGinty's wife, Sarah, took a teaching job at Harvard University.
An avid golfer, he established the first town girls’ soccer league in Montclair, New Jersey and was an active vestry member of St. James Episcopal Church there.
[8] He was on the board of trustees of Salve Regina University, where he endowed a program of history lectures, and of Goddard House in Brookline, Massachusetts.