Doctor Deidre Palmer Doctor of Philosophy is an educator, counselor, theologian, and social worker
Education
Palmer has the following academic degrees:
Master of Religious (Duke University)
Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) in Religious and Theology (Boston College)
Master of Social Work (Flinders University)
Palmer has had teaching roles at:
Perkins School of Theology of the Southern Methodist University, (Dallas, Texas, United States of America);
Uniting College for Leadership and Theology (Parkin-Wesley) in the Adelaide College of Divinity of Flinders University (South Australia).
Career
Palmer’s roles within the UCA have included: counselor with the Uniting Communities childhood sexual abuse counseling team previously serving on Assembly Committees including the Uniting Reference Group, the Board of Coolamon College, the Assembly Commission for Mission, National Mission and Evangelism, and the Assembly Commission for Liturgy Moderator of the South Australian Synod (term ends late 2016) President-Elect Palmer was elected at the 14th Triennial Assembly on 16 July 2015. She will become President at the 15th Assembly, to be held in 2018. Palmer will the second woman to be appointed to the role of President, following Doctor Jill Tabart (1994-1997).
Palmer is married to Lawrie Palmer and they have two adult daughters.
They attend Rosefield Uniting Church in Adelaide.
Membership
As of 2015, member of the Assembly Standing Committee, the Formation, and Discipleship Working Group, the UCA"s National Task Group responding to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Church Polity Reference Committee, and the Assembly Business Committee.
