Seminary Leadership

President José R. Irizarry was called to be Austin Seminary's tenth president on June 27, 2022, and inaugurated on March 31, 2023. 

Board of Trustees

Chair: Keatan A. King, Houston, Texas

Lee Ardell, Houston, Texas
Thomas Christian Currie, New Orleans, Louisiana
Gregory Cuéllar (faculty member)
James A. DeMent (MDiv’17), Missouri, Texas
Jill Duffield (DMin’13), Greensboro, North Carolina
Britta Martin Dukes (MDiv’05), Austin, Texas
Peg Falls-Corbitt (CIM’20), Conway, Arkansas
Jackson Farrow Jr., Little Rock, Arkansas
Beth Blanton Flowers, MD, Bellville, Texas
G. Archer Frierson, Shreveport, Louisiana
Jesús Juan González (MDiv’92, DMin’23), Fayetteville, Arkansas
Cyril Hollingsworth (CIM’16), Little Rock, Arkansas
Ora Houston, Austin, Texas
Shawn Kang, Houston, Texas
John Kenney (CIM’20), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Steve LeBlanc, Austin, Texas
Sue B. McCoy, Dallas, Texas
Matthew Miller (MDiv’03), Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lisa Juica Perkins (MDiv’11), McKinney, Texas
Denise Nance Pierce (MATS’11), Austin, Texas
Mark B. Ramsey, Charlottesville, Virginia
Stephen J. Rhoades, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sharon Risher (MDiv’07), Charlotte, North Carolina
Pamela Rivera, Austin, Texas
Conrad Rocha, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Kenneth Snodgrass (MATS’16), Austin, Texas
John Van Osdall, Houston, Texas
Michael Waschevski (DMin’03), Fort Worth, Texas
Sallie Sampsell Watson (MDiv’87), San Antonio, Texas
Elizabeth Currie Williams, Dallas, Texas
Michael G. Wright, Dallas, Texas

Trustees Emeriti
Cassandra Carr, San Antonio, Texas
Lyndon Olson, Waco, Texas
B.W. “Sonny” Payne, Kerrville, Texas
Max Sherman, Austin, Texas