Diane Ashley
Chief Diversity Officer
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Chair, Board of Trustees
    New York Theological Seminary

Before joining the Federal Reserve, Ashley was senior vice president and director of supplier diversity at Citigroup. She has also worked for The Hollins Group Inc., Eric Salmon, and Gould, McCoy and Chadick.

A Baptist lay person, Ashley serves on the board of ThinkQuest NYC.

George K. Brushaber
(In Trust's Board Vice Chair)
President Emeritus
    Bethel University

Brushaber served Bethel College and Seminary for 27 years, leading the institution to university status and a name change to Bethel University. Before being called to the presidency, Brushaber served as vice president and chief academic officer at Bethel and at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.

Brushaber has also had a dual career in religious journalism, including a decade as executive editor and chair of the editorial committee of Christianity Today. He has chaired the Minnesota Private College Council and the Consortium of Minnesota Theological Seminaries, and he has served on various national boards and organizations in higher education and ministry.

Brushaber is an ordained minister of the Baptist General Conference.

Ian M. Chapman
Former President
    Northern Baptist Theological Seminary Consultant to the Pastoral Ministry Program
    Kern Family Foundation
Chair of the Board of Trustees
    Moscow Theological Seminary

For 13 years, Chapman was president of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, before retiring in 2001. The former pastor of Third Baptist Church of St. Louis, Missouri, he is also president of Russian Leadership Ministries, an organization that supports theological education in Russia.

Ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA, Chapman is a graduate of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now Palmer Theological Seminary) in Philadelphia.

Robert B. Coutts
Executive Vice President (Retired)
    Lockheed Martin Corporation
Board of Governors
    Wesley Theological Seminary
Former Chair of the Board
    Sandia Corporation

Coutts has served on the boards of directors of Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Lockheed Martin United Kingdom, and Lockheed Martin Espana, and he is an elected member of three New York Stock Exchange boards of directors. He is a member of the endowment investment committee at Wesley Theological Seminary and has served on the seminary's board for 12 years. He is a member of University Methodist Church in Syracuse, New York, and an associate member of Hunt's Memorial United Methodist Church in Riderwood, Maryland.

Martha J. Horne
Dean and President Emerita
    Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary
    in Virginia

Horne retired in 2007 after heading the largest Episcopal seminary for 13 years. Previously she served on the seminary's faculty for eight years and was associate dean for six. She was president of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) from 1990 to 1992 and has served on several ATS committees and task forces. A member of the executive committee and board of the Washington Theological Consortium for many years, she received its distinguished service award in 2007.

Horne is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. Since retiring, she has joined the faculty of CREDO, a vocational wellness initiative for clergy and lay leaders in the Episcopal Church. She also serves as dean of ATS leadership development initiatives for presidents of theological schools in the U.S. and Canada.

Christa R. Klein
President
    In Trust

Klein was cofounder of In Trust in 1989 and served on the organization's board from 1995 until 2003. For the past six years, she has served as president and executive director of In Trust, overseeing an expansion of its services and its transformation into a true member service organization with an award-winning magazine and on-site services promoting good governance among North American theological schools.

Over 30 years, Klein has worked as an independent consultant on governance and on teaching and learning in theological education with Lilly Endowment Inc., the Bonfils Stanton Trust, the Association of Governing Boards, the Association of Theological Schools, and with several dozen theological seminaries. She is a senior fellow of the Cheswick Center, a research and education trust for study and improvement in nonprofit governance.

G. Douglass Lewis
(In Trust's Board Chair)
President Emeritus
    Wesley Theological Seminary

Lewis was named president emeritus of Wesley Theological Seminary in 2002 after having served as president for 20 years. He helped transform Wesley's board of trustees and created a program of trustee development for United Methodist seminaries. He is past president of the Association of Theological Schools and a consultant for Auburn Seminary's "Leadership That Works" research project.

Ordained in the United Methodist Church, Lewis was co-editor of A Handbook for Seminary Presidents.

Carol Lytch
Assistant Executive Director
    Association of Theological Schools in the
    United States and Canada

Before joining ATS, Lytch was coordinator of two Lilly endowment grant programs for theological schools. An ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Lytch has also served as a pastor and as an adjunct faculty member at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The author of numerous articles on theological education and a fellow of the Fund for Theological Education, she is a frequent speaker on issues related to theological education.

Jeremiah McCarthy
Professor of Moral Theology and Academic Liaison Officer
    St. Patrick's Seminary and University

Msgr. McCarthy is a Catholic priest of the diocese of Tucson, Arizona. In addition to ongoing service as an associate pastor and administrator in that diocese, he served for 18 years as professor of moral theology, academic dean, and rector-president of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California. From 2002 to 2009, he was director of accreditation and institutional evaluation and secretary to the Board of Commissioners for the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS).

Roger McGrath
Vicar General and Director of Seminarians
    Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey

A Catholic priest of the diocese of Camden, New Jersey, Msgr. McGrath served as both an associate pastor and pastor of parishes in the diocese before he was named director of diocesan relations at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Later he served on the faculty and then as vice rector of St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. McGrath has also served on the boards of both institutions. For 12 years he was treasurer of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Charles W. McKinney
(In Trust's Board Treasurer)
Retired Assistant to the President and
University Ombudsman
    Florida Gulf Coast University
Board of Trustees
    Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
Board of Trustees
    Oral Roberts University

McKinney joined the administration of Florida Gulf Coast University, a brand-new campus of the state university system, in 1997. Previously he retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served in a number of administrative positions including dean, registrar, and dean of admissions.

An Assemblies of God layman, McKinney serves on the board of Fort Myers Christian School. He is the former president of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Anne M. van den Berg
Board of Trustees
    St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological
    Seminary

In addition to her service on the board of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, van den Berg has served as parish council president for the Orthodox Church of St. Stephen the Protomartyr in Orlando, Florida, and as capital campaign director for the parish. At St. Vladimir's she spearheaded a summer internship program for students.

Admitted to the bar in two states, van den Berg currently tends her family of six children ranging in age from grade school to college.

John Vissers
(In Trust's Board Secretary)
Principal
    The Presbyterian College
    Montreal School of Theology

Before joining The Presbyterian College in 1999, Vissers held academic posts at Knox College and then at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, where he continues to be an adjunct professor. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Vissers has pastored three Presbyterian congregations, including the historic Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto.

Vissers is the author of two books and many articles and editorials for a variety of publications.