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The 16-member Executive Board is made up of people of diverse ages, gender, geographical location, race and occupation.

There are preachers, nutritionists, nonprofit leaders, attorneys, writers, government workers and retired people; people whose racial characteristics are Asian, African-American, Caucasian, Hispanic and Native American (with one-third of the members coming from other than Caucasian peoples); people who live in places ranging from Oregon to Oklahoma to the foothills of the Adirondacks in New York.

This group of people has been intentionally selected so that the Executive Board would contain a broad spiritual and experiential base and so that the Board would have a diversity of viewpoints. Board members understand that they need to consider and represent the church as a whole and the broad spectrum of people.

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Executive Committee

Jon Carlson
Moderator
Home: Leola, Pennsylvania
Congregation: Forest Hills Mennonite
Conference: Atlantic Coast Mennonite Conference
Occupation:  Lead Pastor at Forest Hills Mennonite
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Marty Lehman
Moderator-elect
Home: Goshen, Indiana
Congregation: College Mennonite Church
Conference: Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference
Occupation:  Retired pastor and denominational leader
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Todd Lehman
Home:  Hesston, Kansas
Congregation:  Hesston Mennonite Church, Hesston, Kansas
Conference:  South Central Mennonite Conference
Occupation:  Executive Director with Offender/ Victim Ministries, Inc.
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Margie Mejia-Caraballo
Representative of the Iglesia Menonita Hispana
Home:  Rock Island, Illinois
Congregation: Templo Alabanza, Moline, Illinois
Conference: Central Plains Mennonite Conference
Occupation:  Government employee
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Emily Merolli
Home: Hyattsville, Maryland
Congregation: Hyattsville Mennonite Church
Conference: Allegheny Mennonite Conference
Occupation: Attorney
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Executive Board Members

Richard R. Aguirre
Home: Goshen, Indiana
Congregation: Berkey Avenue Mennonite Church
Conference: Indiana-Michigan Conference
Occupation: Clerk-Treasurer for the City of Goshen
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Linda Dibble
Past moderator
Home: Albany, Oregon
Congregation: Albany Mennonite Church, Albany, Oregon
Conference: Pacific Northwest Conference
Occupation: Chaplain and farmer
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Thomas Dunn
Home: Akron, Ohio
Congregation: Crown Hill Mennonite Church
Conference: Ohio Conference
Occupation: Pastor at Crown Hill Mennonite Church
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Lesley Francisco McClendon
Representative of African American Mennonite Association
Home: Hampton, Virginia
Congregation: Calvary Community Church
Conference: Virginia Mennonite Conference
Occupation: Senior Pastor at Calvary Community Church.
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Susan Hart
Home: El Reno, Oklahoma
Congregation: Koinonia Mennonite Church
Conference: Western District Conference
Occupation: Pastor at Koinonia Mennonite Church
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Phillip Helmuth
Home: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Congregation: Park View Mennonite Church
Conference: Virginia Mennonite Conference
Occupation: Disaster Response Coordinator for Southern Louisiana with Mennonite Disaster Service
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Mitch Kingsley
Home: Bluffton, Ohio
Congregation: First Mennonite Church
Conference: Central District Conference
Occupation: Attorney Associate
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Rosetta Landis
Rosetta Landis
Home: Croghan, New York
Congregation: Lowville Mennonite Church
Conference: New York Mennonite Conference
Occupation: Nutritionist at WIC with North Country Family Health Center
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Jerrell Williams
Home: Newton, Kansas
Congregation: Shalom Mennonite Church
Conference: Western District Conference
Occupation: Lead pastor at Shalom Mennonite Church, writer for Anabaptist World
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Karen Zehr
Home: Wichita, Kansas
Congregation: Hope Mennonite Church
Conference: Western District Conference
Occupation: Controller at Builders, Inc.
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  • Church Structure
    • Executive Board Members
    • Executive Board Staff
    • Area Conferences
    • Delegate Assembly
    • Racial Ethnic Council
    • Constituency Leaders Council (CLC)