Candler School of Theology - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Arthur James Armstrong - former Methodist Bishop
• Robert McGrady Blackburn (B.D. degree, 1943) - a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Richard E. Blanchard, Sr. (B.D., 1949) - Methodist pastor and writer of the Gospel song Fill My Cup Lord.
• Robert Eugene Fannin (M.Div. and S.T.D.) - Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• John E. Fellers (1935–2007) - executive director for the Institute of Religion and Health at Texas Medical Center in Houston; opponent of the Religious Right
• Larry M. Goodpaster (M.Div., 1973, D.Min. 1982 - Bishop of the United Methodist Church. Elected President of Council of Bishops in 2010.
• Paul Hardin, Jr. (Divinity degree, 1927) - Bishop of The Methodist Church
• Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr. - Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, previously President of Emory and Henry College
• Lewis Bevel Jones III (B.A 1946, M.Div 1949, D.D. 1997) - a Bishop of the United Methodist Church, Bishop in Residence of Candler School of Theology
• Bernice Albertine King (M.Div., 1988) - daughter of famed African-American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, now a minister at the 25,000-member New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia.
• Clay Foster Lee Jr (B.D., 1953) - a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Michael E. Lodahl - Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Point Loma Nazarene University
• Richard Carl Looney - a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Doug Moseley - retired Methodist minister and former member of the Kentucky State Senate
• Carl Julian Sanders (B.D., 1936) - a United Methodist Bishop
• Timothy W. Whitaker (M.Div., summa cum laude, 1973) - Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Donald Wildmon (M.Div.) - author, former radio host, and founder and chairman of the American Family Association.