Date: March 1, 2023
To: The Louisville Seminary Community
From: Mary Gene Boteler, Chair, Presidential Search Committee
Re: Presidential Search Update IV
The Presidential Search Committee met on Tuesday, February 28, and we are writing again to update you on our progress. At this meeting, the Search Committee participated in an anti-bias and ethical decision-making workshop led by AGB Search Consultant Shannon McCambridge. The Committee also reviewed and adopted a candidate assessment form that we will use in evaluating the written applications for President, ensuring all candidates are evaluated by a common and clear set of criteria.
Until our next meeting on April 17, the members of the Search Committee will be reviewing applicant files. At that meeting, we will reduce the active pool of candidates to a short list of semi-finalists whose references will be interviewed and who will be invited to a Zoom interview with the Search Committee in early May.
Until our “full consideration” deadline of April 15, we will continue to receive applications. We encourage you to consider persons who might provide strong and effective leadership for the Seminary. As names come to mind, we would ask you to forward them to us so that we might be in contact with them. You will find the qualities we seek in our next President listed in the search profile.
The name(s) and contact information for potential candidates may be sent directly to our search consultants Dr. Loren Anderson or Ms. Shannon McCambridge. Any information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential.
We are very pleased with the quality of candidates who have indicated their interest in our search thus far and are excited for the next phase of the search. We will be in touch with another update following our next meeting on April 17.
As always, we ask for your prayers as we begin this process leading to that person who will joyfully and intentionally join us in our WHOSOEVER journey.
