Notable Persons
- Bishop Marjorie Swank Matthews - Elected Bishop in the United Methodist Church in 1980. She was the first clergywoman elected as bishop by a U.S. mainline Christian denomination.
- Rev. Julie Pennington-Russell - Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church (Decatur, Georgia)(8/2007-date). The largest church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention with a clergywoman as Sr. Pastor. (Weekly Worship Attendance of 483/ 2,696 members "1,804 resident and 892 non-resident").
- Bishop Barbara Clementine Harris - the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion in 1989.
- Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori - the first woman elected as a primate of the worldwide Anglican Communion in 2006.
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