One of the items of business before this year’s assembly is the election of the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly. The Stated Clerk Review and Nomination Committee, which was elected by the 215th General Assembly (2003), has been diligent in its work and careful to follow the process detailed in the Standing Rules of the Manual of the General Assembly. After reviewing the current Stated Clerk’s work over the last four years, and after the Stated Clerk’s declaring his intention to be renominated to another term, the committee has nominated the Reverend Clifton Kirkpatrick for another four-year term.

Three additional individuals have declared their intention to stand for the office. They are the Reverend Bob Davis, the Reverend Rus Howard, and Elder Alex Metherell.

The complete information about each of the candidates is also available as a 28-page printable document for your convenience.

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• Stated clerk since 1996
• 58 years old
• Earned degrees from Davidson College, Yale University, Harvard University and McCormick Theological Seminary
• Renominated by the General Assembly Stated Clerk Review/Nomination Committee
• Director of PC(USA)’s Worldwide Ministries Division, 1993-1996
• Former executive of councils of churches in Dallas and Fort Worth, TX
• Member of executive committee of National Council of Churches of Christ
• Affiliate member, Springdale Presbyterian Church, Louisville, minister member of New Covenant Presbytery
  

• Executive director of the Presbyterian Forum, a conservative renewal group
• 39 years old
• Associate pastor of 325-member Westminster Presbyterian Church, Escondido, CA
• Attorney
• Attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA; earned J.D. degree from Indiana University-Indianapolis, M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary
• Moderator of San Diego Presbytery’s ecclesiastical committee, member of its PJC
• In private legal practice in Indianapolis 1989-1995
  

• Pastor of 700-member Peters Creek United Presbyterian Church, Venetia, PA
• 50 years old
• One of six ministers in 2002 who taped “Call for Confession and Repentance” at the entrance of the Presbyterian Center charging that PC(USA) is “apostate under current management”
• Group also urged congregations to “refrain from giving undesignated mission money to governing bodies” and to divert per-capita gifts “to ministries faithfully engaged in God’s ministry of compassion”
• Sponsored an overture calling for “gracious separation” (defeated in Washington Presbytery)