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: Denise Nance Pierce (MATS’11), Austin, Texas

Lee Ardell, Houston, Texas
Thomas Christian Currie, New Orleans, Louisiana
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
G. Archer Frierson, Shreveport, Louisiana
Jasiel Hernandez (MDiv'18), Kerrville, Texas
Cyril Hollingsworth (CIM’16), Little Rock, Arkansas
Ora Houston, Austin, Texas
David H. Jensen (faculty member)
Shawn Kang, Houston, Texas
John A. Kenney (CIM’20), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Keatan A. King, Houston, Texas
Steve LeBlanc, Austin, Texas
Steve Miller (MDiv'15), Mount Enterprise, Texas
Lisa Juica Perkins (MDiv’11), McKinney, Texas
Mark B. Ramsey, Charlottesville, Virginia
Stephen J. Rhoades, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sharon Risher (MDiv’07), Charlotte, North Carolina
Pamela Rivera, Austin, Texas
Kenneth Snodgrass (MATS’16), Austin, Texas
Michael Waschevski (DMin’03), Fort Worth, Texas
Sallie Sampsell Watson (MDiv’87), San Antonio, Texas
Elizabeth Currie Williams, Dallas, Texas
John Williams (MDiv'87), Sherman, Texas
Rachel Wright, Austin, Texas
Shirley Zsohar, Dallas, Texas

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