Former Bishop, President, Board of Discipleship, The United Methodist Church; Former Professor and Director of Student Life, and Founder, Center for the Church and the Black Experience (CBE), Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Rev. Dr. Homer Ashby, Jr.
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 1978
Retired Professor; Retired Clinical Psychologist and Pastoral Care Counselor
Rev. Dr. Lewis V. Baldwin
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 1980
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University
Rev. Dr. Gessel Berry, Jr.
Garrett Theological Seminary 1971
Pastor, Sherman United Methodist Church
Rev. Dr. Reginald Blount
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 2006
Assistant Professor of Formation, Youth, and Culture, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; Pastor, Arnett Chapel African Methodist Episcopal
Rev. Dr. William Holmes Borders, Sr.
Garrett Biblical Institute 1932
Former Pastor, Baptist Church; Civil Rights and Community Activist; Public Speaker and Radio Commentator
Rev. Dr. Johnathan C. Brewer
Garrett Biblical Institute 1907
Former Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; Superintendent, Chicago AME District; Presiding Elder, Chicago AME Conference
Rev. Archibald J. Carey, Jr.
Garrett Biblical Institute 1932
Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; Civil-Rights Activist; Attorney and Circuit Court Judge; City Alderman; Chairman, President’s Committee on Government Employment Policy; Alternate Delegate to the United Nations
Dr. Iva Elaine Carruthers
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 2001
General Secretary, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.
Rev. Michelle A. Cobb
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 1983 and 1989
District Superintendent, North Central District, Indiana Conference, The United Methodist Church
Susan Angeline Collins
Chicago Training School 1895
Missionary Worker in Quéssua, Angola, Women’s Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. Dr. Cecil Wayne Cone
Garrett Biblical Institute 1961
Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; Seminary Professor and Dean; College President, Edward Waters College
Dr. James H. Cone
Garrett Biblical Institute 1961 and 1965
Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary
Rev. Dr. Carmichael D. Crutchfield
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 2010
Associate Professor of Christian Education and Youth Ministry, Memphis Theological Seminary; General Secretary, Department of Christian Education, Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church
Rev. Dr. Alexis L. Felder
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 2002
Minister of Ministry Operations, New Faith Baptist Church International, Matteson, Illinois; Founder, CEO, and Lead Volunteer, Joseph Assignment and Global Initiative
Rev. Dr. Walter E. Fluker
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 1980
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership; Editor, the Howard Thurman Papers Project; Director, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Initiative for the Development of Ethical Leadership (MLK-IDEAL), Boston University School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts
The Center for the Church and the Black Experience 