- Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. - Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA (born 6 April 1926) is the current First Minister of Northern Ireland. Styled as "The Reverend", "Right Honourable" or as "Doctor", depending upon his current role and location, Paisley is a veteran politician and church leader in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, … - Nancy Wilson
The Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson is the Moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC or Metropolitan Community Churches). On Sunday 29 October 2005 in Washington's National Cathedral, Nancy Wilson was installed as Moderator of the Metropolitan Community Church in succession to the denomination's founder, Troy Perry. - Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Joan Gray
The Reverend Joan S. Gray was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) at the 217th General Assembly on June 15, 2006. As Moderator, she served as the presiding officer of the week-long General Assembly meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, and will serve a two-year term as the ambassador-at-large for the denomination. Gray is considered an expert on church polity and structure, and is the co-author of "Presbyterian Polity for Church Officers". - David Clarke
The Right Reverend Dr David Clarke is Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. He was elected at the General Assembly on 7 June 2006. During his year in office his theme will be "Serving Christ, serving others". Dr Clarke was minister at Terrace Row Presbyterian Church in Coleraine for 26 years. - Wolfgang Lippert
Wolfgang Lippert (*16 February 1952 in Berlin) is a German entertainer and actor. He was one of the most popular entertainers of the GDR. After working as an auto mechanic and photographer Lippert "Lippi" came into the show business as a moderator and singer. - Alan McDonald
The Very Revd Dr Alan D. McDonald LLB BD MTh DLitt is a parish minister and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, from the Assembly of May 2006 until May 2007. McDonald was born in Glasgow and trained initially as a lawyer (gaining an LLB from the University of Strathclyde). He studied for the ministry at New College, Edinburgh (BD, MTh). He served as assistant minister in Greenside Parish Church, Edinburgh, … - Bill Phipps
Bill has worked as a poverty lawyer, pastor, community organizer, hospital chaplain and an adult educator. Between 1974 and 1983, Bill was minister of Trinity-St. Paul's United Church in downtown Toronto. He then served for ten years in an administrative position as Executive Secretary with the United Church's Alberta and Northwest Conference. Bill has been a minister at Scarboro United Church in Calgary since 1993. - Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman (born 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland) was a Scottish-American clergyman. After engaging in mission work in Pennsylvania and New York for four years, he was ordained in the Baptist ministry in 1900; thereafter he held various pastorates until 1910. He was moderator of the Synod of California in 1920-21. During the War he directed the first expeditionary division of the Y.M.C.A. and in 1917-18 was director of religious work in France. - Robert Ellis
Robert Ellis (1898 - 1966) was a minister with the Presbyterian Church of Wales who was ordained to a pastorate in Cardiganshire in 1925. From there he moved to Llanbadarn Fawr on the outskirts of Aberystwyth, and then in 1939 he moved to Caersalem Chapel, Ty Croes, on the outskirts of Ammanford, where he ministered for 36 years. In 1965 he ministered as Moderator of the South Wales Association of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. - John MacLeod
John MacLeod, known in Scottish Gaelic as Iain MacLeòid, is a minister of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) who has served in congregations of the Free Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) in Scotland and North America. He came to prominence in connection with disputes within the the Free Church of Scotland over questions of doctrine and morality. - Viktor Giacobbo
Viktor Giacobbo (b. February 6 1952) is a Swiss writer, comedian, moderator and actor. - Peter Windsor
Peter David Windsor (born on April 11, 1952 in England) is a Formula 1 journalist and reporter, and has formerly worked for the Williams and Ferrari Formula 1 teams. Peter Windsor was brought up in Australia. Currently Peter Windsor carries out on-location reports from Formula 1 venues for SPEED Channel. He is also the moderator for Formula 1's post-qualifying and post-race press conferences. Technically, Windsor isn't really a SPEED employee. - Robert Douglas
Robert Douglas was the only minister of the Church of Scotland to be Moderator of the General Assembly five times. Douglas officiated at the coronation of Charles II at Scone in 1651. During the ceremony he preached a sermon which said that it was the monarch's duty to maintain the established religion of Scotland and to bring the other religions in Britain into conformity with it. Douglas assisted in the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, … - Andrew Bonar
Andrew Alexander Bonar, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland; born Edinburgh May 29, 1810, youngest brother of Horatius Bonar; died Glasgow December 30, 1892. He studied at Edinburgh; was minister at Collace, Perthshire, 1838 - 1856 (both in the Church of Scotland and the Free Church); and of Finnieston Free Church, Glasgow, 1856 till his death. He joined the Free Church in 1843, and was its moderator in 1878. - Jonathan Dickinson
Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747) was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University. Born in Hatfield, Massachusetts on 22 April 1688, Dickinson studied theology at the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which later changed its name to Yale College, graduating in 1706. - Tim Russert
Tim Russert , a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58 and lived in Northwest Washington. - Norman Shanks
The Rev Norman Shanks is an ordained Church of Scotland Minister, formerly Minister of Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow (prior to his retirement in June 2007). He was Convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Church and Nation. Before entering the ministry he served as a senior civil servant. He served as Moderator of the Presbytery of Glasgow from June 2002 to June 2003 and, prior to taking up his current position, was Leader of the Iona Community. - Ralph Connor
Rev. Dr. Charles W. Gordon, or Ralph Connor was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor name while maintaining his status as a Church-leader in both the Presbyterian and the United churches. Gordon was born in Glengarry County, Ontario, the son of Rev. Daniel Gordon (1822–1910), a Free Church of Scotland Missionary in Upper Canada, and Mary Robertson Gordon (d. 1890). He later moved with his family from Glengarry to Harrington, Oxford County, Ontario, … - Henry Sloane Coffin
Henry Sloane Coffin (born January 5, 1877 in New York City; died November 25, 1954 in Lakeville, Connecticut) was president of the Union Theological Seminary, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church USA, and one of the most famous ministers in the U.S. Coffin was an heir to the fortune of the furniture firm of W. and J. Sloane & Co. His brother William was the president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Coffin attended Yale University between 1893 and 1897. - Johan Heyns
Johan Adam Heyns, was an influential Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK). He was assassinated at his home in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria. Although his murder was never officially resolved it is widely believed that it was directly related to his criticism of Apartheid. Nelson Mandela paid homage to him as a martyr for his country and a soldier of peace. - Dominic Carter
Veteran newsman Dominic Carter has been described as the best political reporter working in New York television today. He was the first TV journalist in the country to interview Carolyn Kennedy regarding her interest in the U.S Senate, an interview that made headlines throughout the world. - John Spottiswoode
John Spottiswoode (Spottiswood, Spotiswood or Spotswood) (1565 - November 26, 1639) was an Archbishop of St Andrews, Primate of All Scotland and historian of Scotland. He was born in 1565 in Mid Calder, West Lothian, Scotland, the eldest son of John Spottiswood, minister of Calder and "superintendent" of Lothian. He was educated at the University of Glasgow (MA 1581), … - David Gergen
David Gergen is a professor of public service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1995, first as Counselor to the President and then as Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and also held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. - Susie Gharib
Susie Gharib , Nightly Business Report Moderator: "The Department of Justice said this power station in California was arrested during aware of the rule of" energy crisis four years ago, only to push the price of 'electricity. The company, which owns the facility, and four of his staff is now tax CA `manipulation of energy markets. - Eugene Siler
Eugene Siler was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky between 1955 and 1965. He was the only member of the House of Representatives to oppose (by pairing against) the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. That resolution authorized deeper involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. A self-described “Kentucky hillbilly,” Siler was born in Williamsburg, Kentucky, a town nestled in the mountains in the southeastern part of the state. - Reyhan Şahin
Reyhan Şahin (*1981 in Bremen, Germany), also known as "Lady (Bitch) Ray", is a German-speaking Hip Hop artist, and radio host. - Lois Miriam Wilson
The Very Reverend Dr. The Honourable Lois Miriam Wilson, C.C. (born Lois Freeman, April 8 1927) was the first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1980 to 1982. She was ordained a United Church minister in 1965 and served in Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Ontario and Hamilton, Ontario. From 1983 to 1989 she served as co-director of the Ecumenical Forum of Canada and also served as a co-president of the World Council of Churches. - Paul Vangelisti
Paul Vangelisti (born 1945) is an United States poet and broadcaster. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, for a year as a research Fellow and moved to Los Angeles in 1968 to attend the University of Southern California, from which he was awarded a Master of Arts in Literature in 1970. Vangelisti has edited a several anthologies of poetry, … - Alexander Moody Stuart
Alexander Moody Stuart, born Alexander Moody, Free Church of Scotland minister, born at Paisley, 15 June, 1809, died at Crieff, 31 July, 1898. Married Jessie Stuart, eldest daughter of Kenneth Bruce Stuart, Esq. of Annat, 9 September, 1839 (she died 27 April, 1891). Her grandfather had entailed his estate at Rait on the braes of the Carse of Gowrie which he had named Annat after an old family estate, on her father Kenneth, with the condition that if a female succeeded, … - Thomas Brash
Thomas Brash was a leading figure in New Zealand’s dairy industry and one of only four lay moderators of the General Assembly in the history of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. He was the father of Presbyterian and Ecumenical church leader Alan Brash, and grandfather of Governor of the Reserve Bank and Leader of the National Party Don Brash. - George Haliburton
George Haliburton (b. c. 1635; d. 1715, Halton, Angus) was a Scottish cleric and Jacobite. Haliburton received his education at St Salvator's College, St Andrews, obtaining a Master of Arts on June 12, 1652, and a Doctorate in Divinity in 1673. Between his two degrees, he was made minister of Coupar Angus in 1659, and was Archdeacon of Dunkeld by the summer of 1663. - Bainbridge Wadleigh
Bainbridge Wadleigh (January 4, 1831 - January 24, 1891) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Bradford, he attended the common schools and Kimball Union Academy (Meriden, New Hampshire). He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Milford. He served six terms as town moderator and was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1855-1856, 1859-1860, and from 1869 to 1872. - Benjamin Howland
Benjamin Howland (July 27, 1755 - May 1, 1821) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Tiverton, he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, was collector of taxes in 1801, town auditor in 1802, and town moderator in 1805. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1810 and a general in the State militia during the War of 1812. - John Arnup
John Douglas Arnup (May 24, 1911 - October 5, 2005) was a Canadian judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal, who is best known for having pioneered universal legal aid in Ontario. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Jesse H. Arnup (1881-1965), a Methodist minister who was Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1945 to 1946, and Ella Maud Leeson (1883-1966), he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Victoria College in the University of Toronto in 1932. - Alexander Lindsay Of Evelick
Alexander Lindsay of Evelick (b. 1561; d. 1639), second son of John Lindsay, laird of Evelick, was a Scottish minister and bishop. A graduate of St Leonard's College, St Andrews, in 1591 Lindsay became Minister of St Madoes church, Perthshire, rising to be Moderator of the presbytery of Perth in 1606, and then Bishop of Dunkeld on December 21, 1607. On January 27, 1624, he was admitted to the Scottish Privy Council. - H. Jason Gold
- Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone. - Bob Schieffer
Ambassador Schieffer grew up in Fort Worth attending the public schools. He graduated from Arlington Heights High School in 1966. He attended the University of Texas in Austin where he majored in government and minored in history. He received a B.A. degree in 1970. Ambassador Schieffer immediately entered graduate school where he studied international relations. He received an M.A. Degree in 1972. Ambassador Schieffer has had a life long fascination with politics.
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