JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. — J. Randall O’Brien of Baylor University has been named as Carson-Newman College’s 22nd president, David Ogle, chair of the presidential search committee and board of trustees, announced July 8. O’Brien currently serves as Baylor’s executive vice president and provost and professor of religion and as a visiting law professor. He will assume Carson-Newman’s presidency Jan. 1, 2009, but will begin his transition Aug. 1. Carson-Newman, affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, has 1,700 undergraduate students, 150 graduate students and 129 full-time faculty at its Jefferson City campus.
O’Brien holds a doctor of theology and master of divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, a master of sacred theology from Yale Divinity School and a bachelor of science from Mississippi College. He has done additional studies at Harvard and Oxford universities. A licensed and ordained Baptist minister, O’Brien has served as interim pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio since January 2007. He has served as pastor or interim pastor of 19 churches in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana and regularly preaches in revivals and conferences in churches, conventions and universities across the United States and abroad.
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