Co-Moderators announce the names of committee leaders for the 227th General Assembly

LOUISVILLE — The Rev. Tony Larson and the Rev. CeCe Armstrong, Co-Moderators of the 226^th General Assembly (2024), have announced the names of committee moderators and vice-moderators for the 227^th General Assembly, which will be held June 22-July 2 online and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Larson described a selection process “grounded in Presbyterian values of fairness, diversity, and faithful discernment.”

According to the Co-Moderators, commissioners who wished to be considered for committee leadership were invited to submit a detailed written application addressing their experience as moderators and facilitators, their leadership style, their approach to managing stress and conflict, their capacity to remain impartial on contentious matters, and their competency with the hybrid technology environment in which GA committees now operate.

The applicants were made anonymous before the Co-Moderators began discerning committee leadership. Identifying information including names, demographic data, presbyteries and contact details were removed so the Co-Moderators could evaluate each applicant’s responses on the merits alone.

Following that initial anonymous review and ranking, the full applications, including demographic information, were considered to ensure that, as Larson noted, “the leadership cohort as a whole reflects the breadth of the church’s diversity across race, ethnicity, gender, orientation status, geography, sexual orientation and theological perspective.”

Reference checks were then conducted for the finalists before invitations were extended.

“We were moved by the quality and depth of the applications we received,” Armstrong said. “These are leaders who have thought carefully about what it means to moderate faithfully, to hold space for every voice, to safeguard fair process and to trust the Holy Spirit to move through the Assembly’s work.”

“One of the great joys of this journey has been doing the work alongside my Co-Moderator, the Rev. CeCe Armstrong,” Larson said. “From the very beginning, we approached this process together: prayerfully, carefully and with open hands. What the Spirit placed before us was a cohort of leaders who represent the remarkable diversity of who the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) actually is. We did not manufacture that. We discerned it. And we are excited to equip, support and collaboratively moderate the Assembly alongside this team.”

Here’s the list of committee moderators and vice-moderators and their presbyteries:

Bills and Overtures

Ruling Elder Donald Adams, Moderator, Presbytery of Long Island, and Teaching Elder Lindley DeGarmo, Vice-Moderator, Hudson River Presbytery

Climate and Environmental Justice

Ruling Elder Linda Kennan, Moderator, Presbytery of Lake Huron, and Teaching Elder Michael Goodwin, Vice-Moderator, Winnebago Presbytery

Constitutional Interpretation

Ruling Elder Miriam Hollar, Moderator, Presbytery of Southern Louisiana, and Teaching Elder Joe Genau, Vice-Moderator, Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley

Financial Stewardship and Witness

Teaching Elder Joanna Dunn, Moderator, Presbytery of the Cascades, and Teaching Elder Kari Olson, Vice-Moderator, Presbytery of Philadelphia 

General Assembly Operators

Ruling Elder Anne Wilson, Moderator, Presbytery of New Covenant, and Ruling Elder Renda Brinson, Vice-Moderator, Presbytery of Charlotte

General Assembly Relationships

Teaching Elder Ruth Faith Santana-Grace, Moderator, Presbytery of Philadelphia, and Teaching Elder Brent O’Neill, Vice-Moderator, New Castle Presbytery

Gender and Sexuality Justice

Teaching Elder Olivia Lane, Moderator, Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery, and Teaching Elder Matthew Henderson, Vice-Moderator, Northeast Georgia Presbytery

Theological Education and Ordination

Teaching Elder Charlotte Lohrenz, Moderator, Whitewater Valley Presbytery, and Ruling Elder Eugene Richardson, Vice-Moderator, Charleston Atlantic Presbytery

Racial Justice

Teaching Elder Patricia Jones, Moderator, Charleston Atlantic Presbytery, and Teaching Elder Steve Watts, Vice-Moderator, Presbytery of the Inland Northwest

Reformed Identity Around the World

Ruling Elder Rachael Eggebeen, Moderator, Presbytery of de Cristo, and Teaching Elder Matt Bussell, Vice-Moderator, Salem Presbytery

Reformed Identity in the U.S.

Teaching Elder Josh Robinson, Moderator, Mission Presbytery, and Teaching Elder Patricia Stetson-Warning, Vice-Moderator, Presbytery of Plains and Peaks

Learn more about the 227^th General Assembly here.