ANITA C. HILL:

Anita C. Hill served as co-pastor of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, a member congregation of the Saint Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), where her areas of particular interest were racial, economic and GLBT justice, global and local ministry, and immigrant rights.

Hill was born in 1951, and as a child attended a Roman Catholic church in Shreveport, Louisiana. She spent her high school years in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, where she joined a United Methodist Church. She earned a bachelor's degree in general sciences at Mississippi State University.

She joined St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church in St. Paul in 1981, and was an active participant in the development of outreach to gay and lesbian people there. In 1983 she became a ministry Associate of St. Paul-Reformation, serving Wingspan, a ministry with and on behalf of gay and lesbian people. From 1990 to 1994 she worked for Lutheran Social Services and for Family Service, Inc., as the coordinator of HIV/AIDS ministry and as an educator regarding HIV/AIDS and anti-homophobia. In 1994 she returned to St. Paul-Reformation as a professional lay pastoral minister serving both Wingspan and the congregation.

Hill earned a master's degree in Religious Studies (1987) and, subsequently, a master of divinity degree from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minnesota, completing her Lutheran studies at Luther Seminary, St. Paul. She was ordained “irregularly” on April 28, 2001, in defiance of church policy. She was received as a member of the clergy roster of the ELCA on September 18, 2010 after the national church changed its standards for candidates for ordination.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 16,193

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Processing Information:

Digitized by: Minnesota Historical Society, April 2019

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Digital audiovisual transferred from the master audiocassettes, videocassettes, and DVD by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, April 2019.

Catalog ID number: 990072928300104294

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Lesbian clergy -- Minnesota.

Sexual minorities -- Minnesota.

Organizations:

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church (St. Paul, Minn.).

Wingspan Ministry (St. Paul, Minn.).

Document Types:

Oral histories (document genres)

Sound recordings.

Transcripts.

Video recordings (physical artifacts).

Occupations:

Clergy.

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