2008 General Convention Deputies

Those who will attend General Convention are noted in bold. As is customary, eight deputies and two additional alternates will travel to convention.

Clergy

• The Rev. Deborah Hunley
• The Rev. Michael Sullivan (unable to attend)
• The Rev. Phyllis Spiegel
• The Rev. David Cox
• The Rev. Ray Moore (1st alternate, promoted to regular deputy)
• The Very Rev. Kim Webster (2nd alternate) (unable to attend)
• The Rev. Judy Parrish (3rd alternate, promoted to first alternate)
• The Rev. Melissa Hays-Smith (4th alternate)

Lay

• Nina Salmon
• Ernest Holley
• Billy Kingery
• Jack Barrow
• Mimi Leonard (1st alternate) (unable to attend)
• Tray Light (2nd alternate, promoted to first alternate)
• Nancy Dixon (3rd alternate)
• Bob Miller (4th alternate)

Canons of the Diocese

Section relating to General Convention Deputies

CANON 26: OF DEPUTIES TO THE GENERAL CONVENTION AND DELEGATE TO THE TRIENNIAL MEETING
Sec. 1 At the regular annual Council in the calendar year preceding the year of the meet-ing of the General Convention there shall be elected by ballot the full quota of ordained persons, presbyters or deacons, canonically resident in the diocese, and the full quota of lay persons, communicants of this church in good standing in the diocese but not necessarily domiciled in the diocese, as deputies to the General Convention, and, in the same manner, there shall be elected a like number of ordained persons and lay persons to act as alternates. If the full quota of ordained persons and the full quota of lay persons is less than the total of one nominee in each order from each convocation, then the nominee or nominees not elected to General Convention will become alternates in priority as determined by the order of the election and they will take priority over elected ordained and lay alternates. The priority of elected ordained and lay alternates shall be determined by the order of their election. Not more than one clerical or lay deputy nor more than one clerical or lay alternate shall be elected from any one convocation unless there be an insuffi-cient number of clergy members or lay persons nominated from the various convocations.
Sec. 2 It shall be the duty of each of the deputies and delegates elected to signify to the secretary of the diocese, thirty days before the meetings of the General Convention, whether he or she accepts or declines the election. Should vacancies occur through any cause whatever, the secretary of the diocese shall issue certificates of election to the alternate deputies in the order of their election. Should the diocese’s full quota of deputies not be filled by acceptances of those elected, the Bishop may fill any vacancies by appointment, with the advice and consent of the executive board.
Sec. 3 There shall also be elected in the calendar year preceding the year of the meeting of the General Convention a diocesan United Thank Offering coordinator from among the nomi-nees for that office submitted by the five convocations who shall also be a Triennial Meeting delegate. The runner-up in this election becomes the assistant United Thank Offering coordinator and the United Thank Offering coordinator’s alternate to the Triennial Meeting.
Sec. 4 The executive board shall include in the annual diocesan budget a proportionate sum for necessary expenses of the deputies to the regular sessions of the General Convention, and of the two alternates, one in the clerical order and one in the lay order, next in succession, and of the delegate to the Triennial Meeting, and the sum so set aside shall be made available for the deputies and alternates to the General Convention and for the delegate or alternate to the Tri-ennial Meeting prior to their leaving for the General Convention and the Triennial Meeting.