Woman Nominated to Become Chief of Staff for National Council of Churches
The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, who heads the U.S. Office of the World Council of Churches, has been nominated to become chief staff officer of the National Council of Churches, the nation’s preeminent ecumenical body.
The National Council announced Campbell’s nomination on Wednesday and said the choice would be voted on at the council’s General Board meeting next week in Portland, Ore.
If elected, Campbell would become the second woman to serve as the NCC’s chief staff official. Claire Randall, an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), served as general secretary from 1974-84.
Campbell holds ministerial credentials in both the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
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