Rev. David Casey, S.J., was born on September 25, 1938, in Buffalo, New York, the first child of Mr. Patrick James Casey and Mrs. Elsie Anna Koch.  He was raised in Buffalo, where he attended Blessed Trinity Parish School and graduated in 1956 from Canisius High School, founded by the Jesuits in 1870.  He then entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York, on September 7, 1956, pronouncing his first vows there in the summer of 1958.

Studying at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak, New York, until 1963 he earned an A.B. in Classics and an M.A. in Philosophy from Fordham University.  In the summer of 1963 he joined the faculty of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, where for three years he taught in the Philosophy Department and served as a faculty advisor in Nelligan Hall and as moderator/coach of the Chaumonot Debate Forum. 

He moved in 1966 to Woodstock College in Maryland, where he earned the M. Div. degree, and in the academic year 1969-70 he lived in New York City, where he studied at Union Theological Seminary and earned an S.T.M. degree in systematic theology.  He had been ordained to the priesthood in June, 1969.

From 1970 until 1974 he lived in New Haven, Connecticut, where he studied at Yale University and earned the Ph. D. degree in Philosophy, writing a dissertation on the philosophy of religion of Josiah Royce.  From 1974 until 1980 he taught in the Philosophy Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Moving to New York City in 1980, he taught in the Philosophy Department at Fordham University, where he served as the Director of the M.A. Humanities Program. 

During a sabbatical year in 1987-88 he taught part-time in the Philosophy Department at Le Moyne College.  From 1988 to 1990 he taught at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department.  From 1990 to 1994 he held a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Theology Department at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Returning to Fordham University in the Bronx in 1994 he taught philosophy there as an Adjunct Associate Professor and served as the Administrator of the Loyola Hall Jesuit Residence until 2005.  In the summer of that year he moved to Le Moyne College and served for two years as Assistant to the Vice-President of Institutional Advancement.  Then in the spring of 2007 he became Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity, a position he held until December of 2009, when he became Alumni Chaplain at Le Moyne.

Fr. Casey continues to represent the Eastern Jesuit institutions on the national planning committee of the Mission/Identity Conference of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, a three-year post to which he was elected in 2008.