{"id":11831,"date":"2024-01-22T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11831"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:59:57","slug":"john-ruddy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/john-ruddy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ruddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        John Ruddy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/John-Ruddy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/John-Ruddy.png 171w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/John-Ruddy-160x193.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Ruddy was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 9 &#8220;in recognition of his leadership as an entrepreneur and developer contributing to the fabric of Ontario\u2019s infrastructure, and as a patron of the arts, history and sports.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He graduated from Carleton in 1975 and began his career in Toronto. He launched his own company, Trinity Development Group, in 1991 and relocated back to Ottawa in 1993. Trinity is an industry leader in retail and innovative mixed-use developments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has held positions as honorary chair of the Royal Ottawa Hospital Campaign for Mental Health, the Ashbury College Opening Doors Campaign and the Campaign Cabinet for the Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Ruddy is lead governor of the CFL Ottawa RedBlacks, managing partner of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, owner of the RedBlacks, Ottawa Fury and Ottawa 67\u2019s and president of Old Crows Football Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7M5W8Om8as\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF John Ruddy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ruddy was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 9 &#8220;in recognition of his leadership as an entrepreneur and developer contributing to the fabric of Ontario\u2019s infrastructure, and as a patron of the arts, history and sports.&#8221; He graduated from Carleton in 1975 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13565,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11831\/revisions\/13565"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}