Birmingham Baptist Wesley “Pat” Pattillo announced recently that he will retire in December from his post as executive director of the National Council of Churches Communication Commission.
Pattillo has been a senior staff member of the prominent ecumenical organization for the past seven years. Prior to his current post, he served as vice president for university relations at Samford University in Birmingham for eight years, following a 21-year stint as vice president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
Pattillo also has directed the North American program of Hong Kong Baptist University, the sole surviving Christian university in the People’s Republic of China, and was president of Jack and Ruth Eckerd’s National Foundation for Youth.
Pattillo, 67, is currently president of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, a Protestant-Catholic-Jewish-Muslim consortium that works closely with ABC, CBS and NBC networks on religious programming. He is also a member of The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Communications and Society and serves on the Leadership Summit of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
His wife, Zelma, is the retired director of spiritual care for Birmingham’s New Beacon Hospice. After a postretirement “travel sabbatical,” the Pattillos will continue to be based in Birmingham, where they have lived since 1987.
They are members of Baptist Church of the Covenant, Birmingham. (TAB)
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