The State - News from July 19, 1988
A San Francisco-area pastor has won a coveted vacancy as a bishop in the 9-million-member United Methodist Church and has been assigned to Portland, Ore. The Rev. William W. Dew Jr. of Alamo, Calif., outpolled six other pastors at the denomination’s Western Jurisdiction Conference meeting in San Diego. The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a former aide to the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, was his closest rival. Dew will fill a vacancy left by the retirement of Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly.
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