Unitarian Group Elects First Black President
The Unitarian Universalist Assn. elected its first black president in the denomination’s 40-year history at its annual convention in Cleveland.
The Rev. William G. Sinkford, 54, won by a 2-1 margin--2,218 votes to 1,043 votes--over the Rev. Diane M. W. Miller, who would have been the first woman president. Miller has been director of ministry since 1993.
Sinkford succeeds the Rev. John A. Buehrens, who served two four-year terms.
After a corporate career, mostly in marketing, Sinkford entered divinity school and was ordained in 1995 in Cincinnati. He said he would use his presidency to speak out on racial justice, gender equality and poverty.
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