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Title: Pacific Lutheran Theo Seminary Names Lull President ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF October 25, 1996 LULL NAMED SEMINARY PRESIDENT The Rev. Timothy F. Lull, 53, will become the sixth president of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif., on Jan. 1, 1997. He succeeds the Rev. Jerry L. Schmalenberger, 62, who assumed the duties of a professor of pastoral ministry at the seminary on Sept. 1, 1996. PLTS is one of eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Lull is currently the seminary's academic dean and a professor of systematic theology. The PLTS board of directors approved Lull's presidency on Oct. 12 after a nationwide search process. "Dr. Lull is a person of scholarship; he is as well a person of the church, committed to the ministry of the gospel in the church for the world. He will serve PLTS and the church with distinction and integrity of truth and witness," said the Rev. Mark R. Ramseth, bishop of the ELCA's Montana Synod and chair of the PLTS board. A native of Fremont, Ohio, Lull earned a B.A. degree from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., and B.D., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, New Haven, Conn. He was pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, Needham, Mass., 1972-1977. Lull served on the faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1977-1989, and as a visiting scholar at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, England, 1983-84 and 1987. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Dir., ELCA News Service, (312) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask]; Frank Imhoff, Assoc. Dir., (312) 380-2955 or [log in to unmask]