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About: Board & Staff

AED Board Officers

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President
Tracie Middleton​
North Texas
Term ends Spring 2025
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Vice President/President-elect 
Carole Maddux
Atlanta
​Term ends Spring 2027
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Secretary
Bradley Peterson
San Francisco
Term ends
Spring 2023
Past President
This position is vacant due to a resignation.
Treasurer
Phyllis Jones, New Jersey
​Term ends Spring 2023

AED Board of Directors

AED's Board
​The Association for Episcopal Deacons elects new board members every two years, by ballot of AED members. ​The Board consists of 5 elected deacons, 2 elected priests, 1 elected bishop and 2 elected laity. Other appointments are made as needed. Liaisons to Anglican Deacons Canada and The Fund for the Diaconate are chosen by those bodies.
Deacons
  • Gen Grewell, Olympia (2023)
  • ​Chris McCloud, Maryland (2023)
  • Jan Grinnell, Rhode Island (2025)
  • Juan Sandoval, Atlanta (2025)
  • Ruth Elder, Maryland (appointed through 2023)
  • Jon Owens, California (appointed through 2023)
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Presbyters 
  • Kate Harrigan, Central Pennsylvania (2023)
  • Frank Alton, Los Angeles (2025)

Bishop
  • Rafael Morales, Puerto Rico (2023)

Laity
  • Bradley Peterson, San Francisco (2023)​
  • Vacant

Liaison from Anglican Deacons Canada
  • Lisa Chisholm-Smith, Ontario

Liaison from The Fund for the Diaconate
  • Geraldine Swanson, New York

Terms end in the spring of the year listed, prior to the spring board meeting. Officers and directors serve for four years.

​In 2021 Presiding Bishop Michael Curry recorded a short video offering his thanks to AED’s past President, Deacon Maureen Hagen, for her service to AED, deacons, and the Church. 
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AED is a membership association of persons and dioceses within The Episcopal Church whose mission is to increase participation and involvement of all baptized persons in Christ's diaconal ministry, especially by promoting and supporting the diaconate.
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