Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

In October 2010, the Board of Trustees asked President Michael Jinkins to form a Strategic Planning Committee for the Seminary. The committee included trustees, faculty, administrators, staff, the student body president, and a church leader. The committee conducted a community-wide feedback event, as well as an additional student focus group, and a research project seeking to learn what the church expects our graduates to know and be able to do. The committee also issued an invitation for proposals for specific programs that might be considered for the Seminary's strategic plan. The committee listened, deliberated, and analyzed the results of its research and the proposals it received. They worked for a year to develop the plan which they recommended to the Board of Trustees at its October board meeting, 2011.

Pat Cecil, Vice President and CFO
Sue Garrett, Committee Vice-Chair, Professor of New Testament Studies
Doug Gragg, Professor of Bibliography, Director of Library and IT Services, and Officer of Institutional Effectiveness
Kilen Gray, (MDiv ’02) Dean of Students
David Hester, Dean of the Seminary
Michael Jinkins, Committee Chair, Seminary President
Pam Kidd, (ex‐officio), Chair of the Board of Trustees, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Sumpter Logan, Trustee, Southlake, Texas
Betty Meadows, Executive Presbyter, Mid-Kentucky Presbytery
Ginger Merkel, Trustee, Indianapolis, Indiana
Dianne Reistroffer, Professor of Ministry and Director of Field Education and Methodist Studies
Dorothy S. Ridings, Trustee, Louisville, Kentucky
Melisa Scarlott, Faculty Secretary
Brent Slay, Trustee, Grand Rapids, Michigan
David Snardon (MDiv ’11), Student Body President (2010-11)
Loren Townsend, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling

Committee Support Staff

Carolyn Cardwell, Instructional Technology Administrator
Dana Cormack, Executive Administrative Coordinator to the President
Susan DiLuca, Administrative Assistant, President's Office
Dale Melton, Vice President for Seminary Relations
Jack Sharer, Information Systems Director