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056  {2920}                                         April 25, 1996

General Conference '96

Judicial Council elects Tom Matheny
to sixth term as its president

     DENVER (UMNS) -- Tom Matheny of Hammond, La., was elected to
an unprecedented sixth four-year term as president of the United
Methodist Church's Judicial Council here April 25.

     Matheny, an attorney and active United Methodist layman,
first was elected to the Judicial Council in 1972, when he was a
delegate to General Conference for the third time.

     Members of the council, the church's supreme court, also
elected the Rev. John Corry of Nashville, Tenn., to the position
of vice president. Corry, pastor of Patterson Memorial United
Methodist Church and assistant general counsel at Meharry Medical
College, was elected to the Judicial Council in 1988 and re-
elected in 1996.

     Sally Curtis AsKew of Elberton, Ga., who also was first
elected to the council in 1988 and re-elected in 1996, was named
secretary.  AsKew is academic law librarian at the University of
Georgia School of Law and has served on the governing board of the
churchwide Board of Global Ministries and of the board of the
National Council of Churches.

     Judicial Council officers are elected for four-year terms but
election to the council is by the General Conference for an eight-
year term.

     Also on April 25, members of General Conference elected the
following lay alternate members of the Judicial Conference: Daniel
Keith Church, Akron, Ohio; Sally Brown Geis, Denver; Jon R. Gray,
Kansas City, Mo.; Ed Hill, Amarillo, Texas; Jack W. Plowman,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; and T. Terrell Sessons, Tampa, Fla.

     Clergy alternates elected are the Rev. Charles Brockwell Jr.,
Louisville, Ky.; the Rev. Richard W. Cain, Upland, Calif.; the
Rev. John Collins, New Rochelle, N.Y.; the Rev. Larry Duane
Pickens, Chicago; the Rev. Robert K. Sweet Jr., Reading, Mass.;
and the Rev. Jane Tews, Gilbert, Ariz.
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                                                 -- Joretta Purdue

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