Powell tapped as dean of Truett Seminary

WACO, Texas — Baylor University President Robert Sloan has named Paul Powell dean of Truett Theological Seminary.

The appointment came one month after the top candidate produced by a university search committee declined to accept the post.

Powell, 67, is a veteran Texas Baptist pastor who retired in 1998 as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annuity Board. He subsequently has been president of the Robert Rogers Foundation in Tyler, Texas.

He becomes third dean of the seminary in Waco, Texas, which is now in its sixth year and enrolls just under 250 students.

Powell will join the Truett staff Feb. 26. He and his wife, Cathy, will maintain their residence in Tyler but also will maintain an apartment near the Baylor campus. Powell’s longest tenure as a pastor came at Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler, where he served 17 years.