Women in UMC History

Theressa Hoover

Led Women's Division

Defender of Women Preaching

M.D. and Missionary

Lydia Sexton

Licensed "Pulpit Speaker"

Friend to Imigrants

Civil Rights Grandmother

Paula Mojzes

First woman superintendent

Champion for social justice

Maud Keister Jensen

First woman in full connection

Lois Glory Neal

Native American elder & DS

Frances W Alguire

Chair, World Methodist Council

Only woman bishop in Africa

Colleen-Kyung-Seen-Chun

First Asian woman in full connection

Ella Niswonger

First woman elder in UBC

Lucy Rider Meyer

Archbishop of deaconesses

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