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><http://www.umnexus.org/?p=75>Judicial Council Elections Dump Conservatives
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>Posted on Apr 28 2008
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>By Cynthia B. Astle
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>FORT WORTH, Texas-Conservatives in the United Methodist Church 
>suffered a resounding defeat April 28 as incumbent Judicial Council 
>members were replaced by new members nominated by the Council of 
>Bishops.
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>Observers termed the vote a major victory for moderate forces in the 
>church after eight years in which candidates backed by conservative 
>UM caucus groups have held sway on the church's "supreme court."
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>"I think we just took back the denomination," one observer was heard 
>to remark during a break in the proceedings.
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>Angela Brown (California-Nevada Conference) and Ruben Reyes 
>(Philippines Central Conference) were chosen on the second ballot 
>for the two available lay positions on the Judicial Council. The 
>Revs. Kathi Austin-Mahle (Minnesota Conference) and F. Belton Joyner 
>(North Carolina Conference) were elected on the second ballot to two 
>of three clergy positions. They were joined two ballots later by the 
>Rev. William B. Lawrence, (North Texas Conference).
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>A lifelong United Methodist, Brown is a certified lay speaker and 
>has been a General Conference delegate, along with serving as 
>conference lay leader. She retired after 20 years' service as a 
>commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has been an assistant 
>district attorney.
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>Reyes is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
>Philippines and past president of the Philippine Association of Law 
>Professors. Long active in the UMC as a district and conference 
>officer, he and his family are members of Central UMC in Manila.
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>Austin-Mahle currently serves as coordinator of congregational 
>resourcing for the Minnesota Annual Conference. She is a five-time 
>General Conference delegate and a six-time Jurisdictional Conference 
>delegate. She has served as chair of the United Methodist Higher 
>Education Foundation.
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>Joyner, a retired clergy member of the North Carolina Annual 
>Conference, is a popular United Methodist author. He has been a 
>delegate to eight General Conferences and previously served as an 
>alternate to the 2000-2004 Judicial Council. He has served as a 
>pastor, assistant to the bishop, district superintendent and 
>director of connectional ministries.
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>Dean of Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Lawrence has been a 
>delegate to two General Conferences and served as a director of the 
>General Commission on Religion and Race. He has taught at Duke 
>University Divinity School and was an associate dean at Candler 
>School of Theology in Atlanta.
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>Elected as lay alternates to the Judicial Council were:Thomas K. 
>Byerley (West Michigan), Mary A. Daffin (Texas), Jay Arthur Garrison 
>(Holston), Raymond Mande Mutombo (North Katanga), and Deanell Tacha 
>(Kansas East).
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>Elected as clergy alternates were: the Revs. J. Montgomery (Monty) 
>Brown (West Virginia), John Harnish (West Michigan), James D. 
>Karblee (Liberia), Joe May (Mississippi), Rodney E. Wilmoth (Rocky 
>Mountain), and Vicki Woods (New England).
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