THE VERY REV. DR. JANE SHAW Dr. Shaw joins Grace Cathedral from the University of Oxford where she was Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, Oxford, as well as teaching history and theology at the university for the last sixteen years. She is a priest, leader, teacher and distinguished academic and writer who brings to Grace Cathedral powerful preaching and wide expertise in liturgy, management and administration, program development, and fundraising, as well as a devotion to community building. She is a great supporter of the choral tradition and the education of choristers, and has been a trustee of Winchester College, a boys' school in England. Dr Shaw has already spent a substantial part of her life in the USA. She earned a Masters of Divinity from Harvard in 1988 and a Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. In 2006, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Episcopal Divinity School. In the 1990s, she taught at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley. Dr. Shaw has been a Visiting Professor at U.C. Berkeley, Emory University, and Florida Atlantic University. Known internationally for her exceptional talents in communicating Christianity in the public sphere, Dr. Shaw has been successful in bridging differences in governance and policies pertaining to inclusion, and has served as Theological Consultant to the Church of England House of Bishops. She is Canon Theologian at Salisbury Cathedral and an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. This appointment comes a century after the installation of the Grace Cathedral‚s first dean, the Very Rev. James Wilmer Gresham, who served the cathedral for almost three decades, from 1910 to 1939.
THE RT. REV. MARC HANDLEY ANDRUS Since Bishop Andrus' election in 2006, the Diocese of California has undergone historic changes, including governance reform to achieve greater transparency and better communication between diocesan elected bodies, initiatives for outreach based on a vision of building a beloved community grounded on diversity and collaboration, action to save St. Luke's Hospital
in the Mission District of San Francisco, and prominent stands for global peace, environmental justice, immigration reform, and full inclusion of all people in ministry. In his nomination of Dean Shaw, Bishop Andrus welcomed her many gifts of intellect and spirit, and a new partnership for compassionate service in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
THE REV. CN. DR. VINCENT STRUDWICK After serving in the Royal Air Force, Vincent Strudwick trained for priesthood in an Anglican monastic congregation which he entered, after being a member for 14 years. Having read history and economic history for his first degree, he taught in the monastic seminary at Kelham UK all through the 1960's when for most of that time he was Vice Principal. While still a monk, he also spent time as Visiting Chaplain at Dartmouth College and working in Southern Africa. For most of his ministry he has held educational posts, and for ten years was Director of Education and Training for the Diocese of Oxford, eventually returning to academia as Principal of the Oxford Ordination Course. It was here that he met Jane Shaw, already a respected academic teaching in the University, and became her mentor and friend as she prepared for ordination. He became a Fellow of Kellogg College, a graduate College of Oxford University in 1993, and was Director of Theological Studies in the University Department for Continuing Education, during which time he founded the International Theology Summer Program at Oxford University and directed it until 2000 when Dr Shaw succeeded him in this role. During this time, as well as teaching historical theology in the University, he engaged in teaching overseas, particularly with the Smithsonian, on Smithsonian cruises and in Washington DC. Since his formal retirement (obligatory in the UK at an early age!) he has continued to teach and preach; he was made an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg and College Chamberlain for 13 years, and then an Honorary Fellow. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2009 for his theological teaching and writing, particularly on the English Reformation.