SUPPORTERS of the Statement of Commitment (1998-2000)

The Statement of Commitment was originally released on Monday, March 2, 1998 and was "retired" on December 24, 2000, before the 2001-2004 Book of Discipline went into effect. This document remains posted for historical reference purposes. It was signed by 378 clergy. Click a hyperlinked name to read the signer's personal witness regarding this Statement of Commitment. CORNET is no longer taking signatures for this document. All who signed did so before General Conference of 2000. An asterisk (*)indicates names that came via In All Things Charity.


    Alaska Missionary

  1. Kim Poole

    Baltimore-Washington

  2. Chip Aldridge
  3. Kathleen M. Black
  4. Jackson H. Day (Honorable Location, Christ UMC, Columbia, Maryland)
  5. Douglas E. Fox
  6. Arthur Dan Gleckler*
  7. Harry C. Kiely
  8. Donna J. Martin*
  9. Ralph L. Minker
  10. Howard Nash
  11. Tom Starnes
  12. L. Carroll Yingling, Jr.*
  13. Ira G. Zepp, Jr.*

    California-Nevada

  14. John Auer
  15. Robert W. Blaney
  16. Debra L. Brady
  17. Richard Bruner
  18. Jerry Carter
  19. Rolfe J. Conrad
  20. Sherron Courneen
  21. James H. Corson
  22. Alfred S. Dale
  23. Donna Morrow DeCamp
  24. Sharon Delgado
  25. Nadine S. DeWitt
  26. Jan Everhart
  27. Don Fado
  28. David Franks
  29. Glenn Fuller
  30. Alice Ann Glenn
  31. Joan Granander*
  32. C.D. Hayward*
  33. Thomas Hick
  34. Bruce Hilton
  35. Carolyn S. Hinshaw
  36. Elbert D. Hoffman
  37. William Johnson
  38. Allan B. Jones*
  39. Frank Kimper
  40. Stephen Lee
  41. Sam Leonard
  42. Charles Lerrigo
  43. Susan Meikle
  44. Douglas J. Monroe
  45. John V. Moore
  46. David Leeper Moss
  47. Karen Oliveto
  48. Elane O'Rourke
  49. Ronald Parker
  50. Mary K. Parker-Eves*
  51. Philip Peace
  52. Kathleen Pope
  53. Janet Saavedra*
  54. Christine E. Shiber
  55. Richard A. Schlosser
  56. Betsy Schwarzentraub
  57. Judy Shook
  58. Barbara J. Smith*
  59. John Song
  60. Paul Sweet*
  61. Margo Tenold
  62. H.A. "Bud" Tillinghast
  63. Gilbert H. Vieira*
  64. Lloyd K. Wake
  65. Lee Williamson

    California-Pacific

  66. Ann Broyles
  67. James Conn
  68. Fran Cooper-Materra
  69. Susan Halcomb Craig (mod)
  70. Morris Floyd
  71. Katherine S. Gara
  72. Tom Griffith
  73. Ed Hansen
  74. Diane Kenney (mod)
  75. Holly Reinhart-Marean
  76. Tom Reinhart-Marean
  77. Allen J. Moore
  78. Mary Elizabeth Moore
  79. Gregory Norton
  80. Larry Peacock
  81. Sandie Richards
  82. M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither
  83. Perry Wiggins
  84. Frank Wulf

    Central New York

  85. Donald Robert Hoff
  86. L. Paul Pitkin*
  87. Earl M. Smith*

    Central Texas

  88. Annette Vanzant Williams
  89. Mike Wright-Chapman

    Desert-Southwest

  90. Robert Fraley
  91. Lori Martin-DeWitt*
  92. Richard E. Lyddon
  93. Anthony James Tang*
  94. Lucy Jones-Voisey
  95. David Wilkinson

    Detroit

  96. Sara Griffin
  97. Robert C. Hastings*
  98. Marjorie H. Munger
  99. Connie S. Porter
  100. James P. Schwandt
  101. Bea Soots
  102. Eric A. Stone

    East Ohio

  103. Bill Casto
  104. Phillip H. Gillis*
  105. David D. Golby
  106. Alfred Hubler
  107. Don W. Kuntz
  108. Paul G. Schurman
  109. Sue Spirit
  110. Thomas S. Taylor

    Eastern Pennsylvania

  111. Arthur Brandenburg
  112. David Wesley Brown
  113. Robert G. Coombe
  114. Colleen Kristula
  115. Theodore W. Loder
  116. William R. Marlow*
  117. James F. McIntire
  118. Jay R. Newlin
  119. John R. Pritchard, Jr.*
  120. Jared Rardin*
  121. Kenneth Rowe*
  122. Amy C. Smith*
  123. David Tatgenhorst
  124. Hal Taussig
  125. Timothy S. Thomson-Hohl
  126. Adele Wilcox*
  127. Ruth Hope Woodlen*

    Illinois Great Rivers

  128. Jack Cramer-Heuerman
  129. Janet E. Eggleston
  130. Joseph N. Peacock
  131. Marshall R. Semingson*

    Iowa

  132. W. Michael Biklen
  133. Howard J. Eldrenkamp*
  134. Karl Giese*
  135. David R. Holmes
  136. Jim Kledis
  137. William Olmsted*
  138. Tim Tennant-Jayne
  139. Harold J. Wells*
  140. Carl E. Wilson*

    Florida

  141. Martha Rutland-Wallis

    Kansas-East

  142. Kelly Willoughby

    Kansas-West

  143. Chuck Chipman

    Kentucky

  144. Gilbert Schroerlucke

    Lousiana

  145. Robert K. Martin*

    Minnesota

  146. Dennis J. Alexander
  147. Elton W. Brown*
  148. Linda Day
  149. Marylee Fithian
  150. Naomi Jackson
  151. Walter Lockhart
  152. Roger Lynn
  153. Gordon Minehart
  154. Laurits "Larry" Nielsen
  155. Jeanne Audrey Powers
  156. Jean E. Rollin
  157. Kenneth I. Rowe
  158. Donald Utzman*
  159. Judith J. WestLee

    Missouri-East

  160. Nancy A. Richards*

    Missouri-West

  161. John R. Harrison
  162. Cheryl Lynn Wofford Hill, OSL

    Nebraska

  163. Doyle Burbank-Williams
  164. Jimmy Creech
  165. R. Benjamin Garrison
  166. Mark Kemling
  167. Susan L. Mullins
  168. James Wallasky

    New England

  169. Amy Allentzhauser
  170. Susan M. Davenport*
  171. S. Graham DeCoster
  172. Judith A. Gould
  173. Richard Harding*
  174. Sam Hedrick*
  175. Mark Henderson
  176. Nancy Hetherington
  177. Peter A. Hey
  178. Yeager Hudson
  179. Evan R. Johnson
  180. Peter L. Misner*
  181. Jay P. Mitchell*
  182. Philip G. Palmer*
  183. Sydney Pierce*
  184. Beverly Prestwood-Taylor
  185. Bruce Prestwood-Taylor
  186. Marilyn Owen Robb
  187. Ruth E. S. Robinson*
  188. Donald J. Rudalevige*
  189. Julie Todd
  190. Elizabeth Vernon
  191. Wesley Williams

    New Mexico

  192. Helen R. Neinast

    New York

  193. Joe Agne
  194. Leonard S. Buxton*
  195. Nancy A. Carter
  196. John Collins*
  197. Dorothea Crites*
  198. George C. Engelhardt*
  199. Ariel Ferrari
  200. Stephen Goldstein*
  201. James Karpen
  202. Wayne Lavendar
  203. Phyllis J. Leopold*
  204. David J. Lull
  205. George McClain
  206. James R. McGraw*
  207. Martha V. Morrison
  208. Ralph W. Mueckenheim
  209. Carmen Ortiz
  210. Richard Parker
  211. Schuyler Rhodes
  212. Judith Stevens

    North Carolina

  213. John D. Klein*

    North Georgia

  214. Kempton Haynes, Jr.*

    North Indiana

  215. Ronald Dixon*
  216. Mike Mather
  217. Linda Van Horn
  218. Lawrence VanVactor-Lee, OSL

    Northern Illinois

  219. Fred A. Berchtold
  220. B.J. Birkhahn-Rommelfanger
  221. Sally Bowers*
  222. Greg Dell*
  223. Larry G. Dutenhaver*
  224. Dawn Gotoh*
  225. Lynda Hawkins
  226. Marsha Holt*
  227. Carl Hood*
  228. Linda Hood*
  229. Marsha Hott*
  230. Erika Lemke Hundrieser
  231. Robert D. Kraft*
  232. Kermit Krueger
  233. Don C. Leo*
  234. L. Dean Miller*
  235. Nicholas S. Mitrovich
  236. Bettye S. Mixon*
  237. Paul "Nick" Nicholas
  238. Nina Nichols*
  239. Rita M. Root
  240. Martha M. Schmidt*
  241. Lisa Eileen Telomen*
  242. Richard Tholin*
  243. G. Kenneth Tulloch*

    Northern New Jersey

  244. Dan R. Bottorff
  245. Jeff Edwards
  246. Lisanne Finston
  247. David J. Roberts III
  248. Susan Trumbetta

    Oklahoma

  249. Michael A. Asher
  250. Bob Bjorklund
  251. Jeni Markham Clewell
  252. Mark Youmans Davies*
  253. Jim Gragg
  254. Dennis C. Jones
  255. Tish Malloy
  256. Leslie Penrose (withdrew from UMC, 1999)
  257. Susan Ross
  258. Todd A. Spencer

    Oregon-Idaho

  259. George Allen
  260. Dana L. Brown*
  261. Richard F. Burdon
  262. Kristan M. Burkert
  263. Marcia Hauer
  264. Gerry Hill
  265. Ted L. Hulbert
  266. Jeanne Knepper
  267. Alice Knotts
  268. Paul LaRue
  269. Genevieve O. Massie
  270. John Schweibert
  271. Charles Wallace, Jr.
  272. Dee-dee Walters

    Pacific-Northwest

  273. Jan Anderson
  274. Kay Barckley
  275. Paul J. Beeman
  276. Jan Bolerjack*
  277. Joanne Brown
  278. Joanne Coleman Campbell
  279. Jeanne Harvey Duncan
  280. Karla Fredericksen
  281. Jim Head-Corliss
  282. Marion Kline
  283. Katie Ladd
  284. Tom Martin
  285. Sharon Moe
  286. Kathryn Neary
  287. King Rockhill*
  288. Judy Schultz
  289. Patricia Simpson
  290. Jerry F. Smith
  291. Richard Smith
  292. Jana Smith-Worden
  293. Robert W. Stevenson
  294. Mark Edward Williams

    Peninsula-Delaware

  295. C. Richard Cox*
  296. Vernon Schmid

    Rocky Mountain

  297. Linda Downey
  298. John Ed. Francis
  299. Russ Hawkins
  300. J. Donald Hughes (clergy on honorable location)
  301. Bill Kirton*
  302. Eun-sang Lee
  303. Joretta L. Marshall
  304. Paul Murphy
  305. Jan Monroe Sumner*
  306. Kay Gardner Wallace
  307. Clair P. Zilm

    South Carolina

  308. Risher Brabham
  309. Elizabeth Collier

    South Indiana

  310. Henry Gerner

    Southwest Texas

  311. Richard Bates*
  312. Richard K. Heacock, Jr.
  313. Wilson Wade*

    Tennessee

  314. Judy W. Loehr*
  316. Beth A. Richardson

    Troy

  317. Steven C. Clunn
  318. Royal Fishbeck, Jr.*
  319. David Vallelunga*

    Virginia

  320. size="3">Robert H. Eason*
  321. size="3">Youtha C. Hardman-Cromwell
  322. Robert T. Thomason

    West Michigan

  323. Marguerite Bermann*
  324. Cheryl Bistayi*
  325. Joe Bistayi*
  326. Tim Boal
  327. Ellen A. Brubaker*
  328. Leonard R. Schoenherr*
  329. Steven Michael Smith
  330. Gerald L. Toshalis
  331. Stephen Weinberger

    Western New York

  332. Allyn C. Foster
  333. Victor Metivier
  334. Brian Rotach

    Western North Carolina

  335. Wayne Marshall Jones
  336. Karen E. Kaser Odor
  337. Mark A. Rouch*

    West Ohio

  338. Chester V. Chambers
  339. Laurie Clark
  340. Anthony N. Drake*
  341. Rebecca Gifford-Mitchell
  342. Jerry Hill
  343. Bruce T. McDaniel color="#FF00FF">*

    West Virginia

  344. Stephen Swecker

    Western Pennsylvania

  345. R. Craig Bennet, OSL
  346. Suzanne D. Bennett
  347. J. Howard Cherry, OSL
  348. John Patrick Colatch
  349. Jennifer Kimball Casto
  350. James D. Hammerlee
  351. Scott R. McCormick
  352. Maurine C. Waun

    Wisconsin

  353. Robert Millner Adams
  354. Nancy Bauer-King*
  355. Doug Dowling
  356. Kenneth Engelman
  357. Linda J. Gesling
  358. David S. Hinshaw
  359. Edward F. Johnson*
  360. John Kruse
  361. James E. Miller
  362. Joyce Rinehart
  363. Wesley White

    Wyoming

  364. William Bouton
  365. Guy Burt
  366. Kenneth R. Carder
  367. Gary E. Doupe
  368. Paul W. Gere
  369. Amy B. Gregory
  370. Stephen Heiss
  371. Vicki Johnson
  372. Charles H. Lippy
  373. Brolin C. Parker
  374. Roger Richards
  375. E. Allen Siebold

    Yellowstone

  376. Edward H. Folkwein
  377. John S. Lewis
  378. Janet M. Walsh

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