Rosemary C. Mitchell Named Princeton Seminary Vice President

Princeton, NJ, December 4, 2007–Rosemary C. Mitchell, CFRE, has been named vice president for Seminary relations at Princeton Theological Seminary, effective October 1, 2007. 

Mitchell previously served as the Seminary’s interim vice president and director of development. Before she joined the staff in June 2006, she was executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley, a nonprofit agency founded in 1994 to provide grants that fund economic self-sufficiency programs for women in a seven-county region in upstate New York.

She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). From 1985 to 1995, she was copastor of Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, where she began a successful stewardship program, and launched the first congregationally based women’s worship service in the U.S., which was featured on ABC-TV’s Search for Spirituality. Mitchell was also radio host and producer for the audio series Women and the Word, and coauthor of the two-volume Birthings and Blessings. 

Mitchell earned her B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland in 1974, and her M.Div. from Princeton Seminary in 1977. She is a certified fund-raising executive.

She received the “Up and Coming Woman” Award from the Rochester Women’s Network in 2003, and was an Athena Award Nominee for the Women’s Council of the Rochester Business Alliance in 2004.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 as the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in seven graduate degree programs.