Board of Trustees

As an independent nonprofit organization, the Center of Theological Inquiry is governed by a Board of Trustees with fiduciary responsibility to elect its Director, ensure best practice in its nonprofit governance and management, steward its assets and expand its resources in advancement of its founding and enduring mission. The Board’s Trustees and Officers are:

Gayle Robinson

Dr. Roy Lennox

Chair
Vice Chair

Robert Wedeking

Jon Pott

Secretary
Treasurer

Rev. Dr. Fred Anderson

George, The Most Hon. the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Bette Jane (B.J.) Booth

Rev. Dr. Darrell Armstrong

Gayle Robinson

Dr. Tom Greggs

Director
Vice Chair

Rev. Douglas Leonard

Robert Gunn

Charles Wall

Dr. Robert Traynham

The Founders

  • James I. McCord

  • Roland M. Frye

  • Harold H. Helm

  • Henryk R. de Kwiatkowski

  • David E. Lilienthal

  • Henry Luce III

  • Robert E. Meyner

  • W. Beverly Murphy

  • William H. Scheide

  • William H. Sword

  • John M Templeton

James I. McCord (1919-1990)

An international figure in national and international church affairs, James I. McCord is remembered as man of unbounded energy and insight. Educated at the universities of Texas, Harvard, and Edinburgh, he was pastor of churches in New Hampshire and Texas, taught philosophy at the University of Texas, and served as Dean of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary before assuming the presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary at age 39. He led the Seminary from 1959 until his retirement in 1983. During that time, he conceived of the Center of Theological Inquiry and, together with an eminent board of trustees, incorporated it with the State of New Jersey in 1978 as a nonprofit for interdisciplinary research on theology.