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Press RoomFor Immediate ReleasePrinceton Theological Seminary Welcomes Three New Trustees Princeton, NJ, August 15, 2005– The Board of Trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary announced the election of three new trustees at its May meeting. They are Leslie W. Braksick of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Deborah Ann McKinley of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Victor M. Wilson of Devon, Pennsylvania.
Braksick is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of CLG, a global consulting firm of more than 140 consultants that partners with executives and leaders of Fortune 100 companies to implement large-scale changes that drive sustained performance improvement. CLG is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Braksick is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley in suburban Pittsburgh. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at West Virginia University. She teaches courses on leadership and serves as a guest lecturer. She is a board member of Chatham College in Pittsburgh and of The Pittsburgh Opera, is a founding member of the United Way of Allegheny County Women’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society, and is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis and the Organizational Behavior Management Network.
McKinley, who had been an alumni/ae trustee and was a member of the Presidential Search Committee that recommended Iain R. Torrance as the Seminary’s sixth president in 2004, serves as pastor at Third, Scots, and Mariners Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also serves on the Personnel Committee of the Philadelphia Presbytery and on the board of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania. She was previously associate for worship with the theology and worship ministry unit of the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and as editorial consultant on the Book of Common Worship, published by Westminster/John Knox Press in 1993.
Wilson was elected by the Board of Trustees to serve a three-year term as an alumni/ae trustee. He has an M.Div. degree from Princeton Seminary and has been pastor of St. John’s Presbyterian Church in Devon, Pennsylvania, for the past 13 years. He previously served pastorates in Ayden and Charlotte, North Carolina, and Pensacola, Florida. A native of Preston, England, Wilson is a veteran of the British Royal Air Force and a former deputy cruise director of the Queen Elizabeth 2. He moved permanently to the United States in 1973. He is a board member of the Metanexus Institute (Science and Theology), and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Society. He is also on the strategic planning/revisioning team and the Christian Education Committee of Donegal Presbytery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, 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 five graduate degree programs. |
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