Pamela James Jones Begins Service as Trustee
Pamela James Jones has joined the Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Religion and Philosophy faculty at Central Michigan University and an ordained American Baptist minister. She earned an AB from Spelman College and a JD from Temple University, and formerly was a Lecturer in Business Law at Wayne State University in Detroit. She earned the MDiv degree from the Divinity School in 1997 before beginning PhD work in the History of Christianity. A DDH resident during her MDiv and early PhD years, she also returned regularly while writing her dissertation on enslaved Christian women’s identity in the antebellum period (1830-65). From 2003-08 she was a staff minister at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Detroit. She and her husband, Ted, who is chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University Medical School, have two adult children.