Trustees
The Board of Trustees of the Berkeley Divinity School is widely representative of the diverse constituencies served by the seminary throughout the Episcopal Church. Its thirty-two members include business and professional leaders of national stature, alumni/ae serving the church in a variety of significant capacities, faculty, representatives of the university, students, and (ex officio) the Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut. Trustees are drawn from across the country, in keeping with the national spectrum of the School's student body.
The Board meets three times each year, twice in New Haven and once in New York. It conducts its work primarily through five standing committees: Finance, Development, Trusteeship, Program and Life, and Audit. The Board seeks in prospective members persons committed to promoting the seminary's spiritual and intellectual life in service to the Episcopal Church, and who will work to support it as a unique resource for theological education and formation.
Acting on behalf of the School, the Board confers honorary degrees each year on persons whose personal and professional lives exhibit "outstanding accomplishments in the fields of public service, social justice, education and the arts, parish or diocesan leadership, or related areas affecting the Anglican Communion and Episcopal Church." Recent recipients include Jon Meacham (Managing Editor of Newsweek), Sandra Swan (Director of Episcopal Relief and Development), Curtis Almquist (Superior of the Society of St. John the Evangelist), Robin Eames (Archbishop of Armagh), William Anderson (Executive Director of the Episcopal Church Foundation), Phyllis Tickle (author and contributing editor to Publishers Weekly), and Gretchen Pritchard (founding editor of The Sunday Paper).
Below is a list of the current Board of Trustees:
Carl T. Anderson, Los Angeles, California
Dean Harold W. Attridge, New Haven, Connecticut
J. Truman Bidwell, Jr., New York, New York, Counsel
Alan F. Blanchard '00 LHD, New York, New York
The Very Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Britton, New Haven, Connecticut, Dean and President
Steven E. Bush, M.D., Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler '82, Atlanta, Georgia, Vice-Chair
Marion M. Dawson Carr '02 LHD, Greenwich, Connecticut
David E. A. Carson, Hartford, Connecticut, Treasurer
Bethany Davidson `09, New Haven, Connecticut
Ann R. L. Dewey, New York, New York, Vice-Chair
Pamela S. Wesley Gomez, New Haven, Ex-officio
G. William Haas, New York, New York
The Rev. Canon Katherine Harrigan, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
The Rev. Daniel Heischman, New York, New York
The Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld '91, Amherst, Massachusetts
Judith K. Holding '07, Darien, Connecticut, Vice-Chair
Chandler Howard, Farmington, Connecticut
Willis Jenkins, New Haven, Connecticut
Robert Kass, M.D., Los Angeles, California
Wilmot H. Kidd, New York, New York
Linda K. Lorimer, New Haven, Connecticut
The Rev. Canon Anne F. Mallonee '86, New York, New York
Fred W. Pardee III, Littleton, Colorado
The Rev. Nicholas Porter, Southport, Connecticut
Fred D. Scott, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana
Barbara A. Shailor, New Haven, Connecticut
The Rt. Rev. Andrew D. Smith '00 DD, Hartford, Connecticut
The Rev. Caroline M. Stacey '90, New York, New York
The Rev. Clayton L. Thomason '90, East Lansing, Michigan
William Tisdale, New Haven, Ex-officio
Prof. Thomas H. Troeger, Woodbridge, Connecticut
Charles R. Tyson, Jr., Darien, Connecticut
The Rev. Ralph R. Warren, Jr. '89 DD, Palm Beach, Florida
William H. Wright II, New York, New York
Honorary Trustees
David H. Crandall '99 DD, Norwalk Connecticut, Chair Emeritus
George A. Fowlkes '99 LHD, New York, New York, Chair Emeritus
Christian Sonne, Tuxedo Park, New York
The Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley, Deering, New Hampshire