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Nominees for Diocesan
Offices
The 19th Annual Convention will elect persons to serve on Bishop and
Council, Standing Committee and as Trustee to the University of the South.
Below are nominees for these offices whose names were received by the
Secretary of Convention by the nomination deadline of Jan. 7.
Additional written nominations for these offices may be made from the
floor by 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8. The nominations must be written
and contain the office for which the person is being nominated, the nominee’s
name, parish and city and not more than 100 words of biographical information,
including past and present service of the nominee to the Church at all
levels. The nominator’s name, parish and city should also be included
and the nominator should have obtained the nominee’s consent and
willingness to serve before making the nomination. Three hundred copies
of the written nomination must be provided for distribution to delegates.
Nominations may be made only by the Bishops of this diocese, clerical
and lay delegates, vestries and any other person authorized by Canon.
Nominations are still needed for lay and clerical members of the Standing
Committee and lay and clerical members of Bishop and Council in the southeast,
middle east and upper east areas of the diocese.
Lay Trustee to the
University of the South
James G. Cate, Jr.
St. Luke’s, Cleveland
Nominated by: The Rev. Carter Paden, St. Peter’s, Chattanooga; Silas
Williams, Jr., St. Paul’s, Chattanooga; The Rev. Canon Willard Squire
James G. Cate, Jr., is a partner in the Chattanooga/Atlanta/Nashville
law firm of Miller & Martin LLP and former General Counsel of Bowater
Southern Paper Corporation. He is a graduate of the University of the
South and Duke University Law School. He has just completed his first
term as a lay Trustee. He was named University of the South’s Distinquished
Alumnus for 1997 having previously served as a Regent, a Trustee, as President
of the Alumni Association, and as a member of the Alumni Council and Parents
Council. At St. Luke’s he is on the finance committee and serves
as an usher. Mr. Cate is active in his community. He is married to Margaret
Wheland of Lookout Mountain. Their daughter, Margaret, is a 1994 graduate
of Sewanee.
John K. Clark
St. Paul’s, Chattanooga
Nominated by Rick Govan, St. Paul’s, Chattanooga
John K. Clark is a 1982 graduate of the University of the South. He has
served two past terms as a Trustee and has been involved with development
and other alumni affairs of the University. Mr. Clark served as the chair
of the diocesan convention in Chattanooga and has served on the Vestry
of St. Paul’s. He and his wife, Stacy, and their three sons live
just outside Chattanooga in Wildwood, GA (one of the few north Georgia
communities in the Diocese of East Tennessee).
Bishop and Council
Clergy – Middle East Area
The Rev. C. Alex Barron
Church of the Ascension, Knoxville
Nominated by the Rev. Barbara Ann Harper, Church of the Ascension, Knoxville
The Rev. Alex Barron is a native of South Carolina, a lifelong Episcopalian
and a graduate of both The Citadel and the School of Theology of the University
of the South. He was ordained a Deacon in 1970 and a Priest in 1971. He
has served congregations in both Carolinas as well as in Chicago and Southwest
Florida. He has been the Associate Rector of the Church of the Ascension
in Knoxville, since July of 1999. He currently serves as convenor of the
Mid-East Clericus and as a member of the Commission on the Ministry. He
has been married to Margie Barron since 1968.
Bishop and Council
Lay – South East Area
Suzy Deierhoi
St. Timothy’s, Signal Mountain
Nominated by the Rev. George Choyce, St. Timothy’s, Signal Mtn.
Suzy Deierhoi has been a member of St. Timothy’s for eight years
and is a Lay Eucharist Minister, Lay Eucharist Visitor, financial secretary,
and clerk of the Vestry. She was a member of the rector search committee
and has been a diocesan convention delegate twice. She also has been secretary/treasurer
of ECSET for the past seven years and is business manager for the Hosanna
Community.
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