Program Committee

The Program Committee shall have authority to determine the content of the program of the SCE Annual Meeting, with the exception of the SCE plenary speakers and conference theme, which shall be chosen by the President.  The Program Committee shall be chaired by the President and shall include the Presidential Cabinet (ex officio with voice and with vote) and one member (not necessarily a member of the Board) appointed by the president for that year only. The Program Committee shall also include the Editor or co-editors (ex officio with voice and with vote) and at least three additional members appointed by the President from the elected members of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors or, with the approval of the Board of Directors, the Program Committee itself, shall have the authority to include more participants in the selection process, provided that (1) the additional members be restricted to preliminary electronic voting only, (2) the additional members and the terms of their appointment shall be communicated to the membership as a whole, and (3) no less than 60 percent of the votes deciding the content of the program shall be cast by representatives elected directly by the membership as a whole.  Weighted voting may be used.

The Program Committee selects proposals and designs the program for the Annual Meeting, largely through a blind electronic ballot carried out before the Committee actually gathers in March or April. This selection process includes those serving on the Program Committee plus one vote from each of the Working Groups, the Women's Caucus, and the Students' Caucus.

Past President Jennifer A. Herdt Yale Divinity School Associate Professor of Theology	President James F. Keenan Boston College Professor	President Elect Bryan N. Massingale Fordham University Associate Professor of Moral Theology
Vice President D. Stephen Long Southern Methodist University Professor of Ethics	Board Ramon Luzarraga Benedictine University, Arizona Assistant Professor, Dept. Chair	Board Tobias L. Winright Saint Louis University Mader Chair of Health Care Ethics Associate Professor of Theological Studies
Board Thelathia Young Bucknell University Visiting Assistant Professor	Co-Editor Kevin M. Carnahan Central Methodist University Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religion	Co-Editor Scott Ronald Paeth DePaul University Professor of Religious Studies
Emily Reimer-Barry University of San Diego Chair and Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies	Ex officio Andrea Taylor Talley Management Group Executive Director