ROME, Ga. — Nelson Price, a leading conservative among Baptists in Georgia and the Southern Baptist Convention, was named acting trustee chair at Shorter College following a long legal battle that ended with the Georgia Baptist Convention (GBC) retaining complete control of the trustee-selection process.
Price is retired pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church, Marietta, Ga. The Rome, Ga., college’s lawsuit against the GBC came to an official end Oct. 7, according to outgoing chairman Gary Eubanks. A consent order, based on a Georgia Supreme Court ruling last May in favor of the GBC, disposed of all remaining issues in the long legal battle. “In this order, the previously existing board of trustees was disbanded and governance of the college became the responsibility of a new board, virtually all of whom have been elected to current terms by the GBC with no input from the college or the pre-existing board of trustees,” Eubanks said.
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