Board Leadership

Bishop Leah D. Daughtry

Chairperson, SDPC, Inc.
National Presiding Prelate
The House of the Lord Churches
Brooklyn, NY

Board of Trustees

Rev. Dr. Danielle Ayers

Friendship-West Baptist Church
Dallas, TX

Rev. Traci Blackmon

Faith Out Loud
Florissant, MO

Dr. Iva E. Carruthers

General Secretary Emerita
and Co-Founder

Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.

Chicago, IL

Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr.

President Emeritus

American Baptist College

Nashville, TN

Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III

SDPC Co-Founder

Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church

Dallas, TX

Rev. Shantell Hinton

Winthrop Rockefeller

Little Rock, AR

Rev. Dr. Earl B. Mason, Sr.

Senior Pastor, Bible-Based Fellowship

Church of Temple Terrace, Tampa, FL

Rev. Dr. Joe Samuel Ratliff

Pastor Emeritus

Brentwood Baptist Church

Houston, TX

Dr. Teresa Smallwood

United Lutheran Seminary

Philadelphia, PA

Rev. Dr. Gina Marcia Stewart

Senior Pastor

Christ Missionary Baptist Church

Memphis, TN

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

SDPC Co-Founder and Pastor Emeritus

Trinity United Church of Christ

Chicago, IL

Rev. Dr. Larry Murphy

SDPC Historiographer,

Professor Emeritus, Garrett Evangelical

Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL