Rev. Louise Johnson is our 2022 Assembly Churchwide representative

We are pleased to announce that our visiting Churchwide representative for the 2022 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly is Rev. Louise Johnson, whose role with the ELCA is Executive for Administration.

Johnson most recently served as the Director of Leadership Development for LEAD, a leadership development non-profit of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod of the ELCA. Prior to her work with LEAD, she served as the fourteenth president of Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa where she led the seminary to its largest fundraising and enrollment years in the history of the school. Johnson has also held several senior level roles at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and has served congregations in a variety of roles in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Pennsylvania.