Background
Craig, Judith was born on June 5, 1937 in Lexington, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Raymond Luther and Edna Amelia (Forsha) Craig.
Craig, Judith was born on June 5, 1937 in Lexington, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Raymond Luther and Edna Amelia (Forsha) Craig.
Bachelor, William Jewell College, 1959. Master of Arts in Christian Education, Eden Theological Seminary, 1961. Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1968.
Doctor of Divinity, Baldwin Wallace College, 1981. Doctor of Humane Letters, Adrian College, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters, Otterbein College, 1993.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Lebanon Valley College. Doctor of Humane Letters, Baldwin Wallace College.
In Christian from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, New York in 1968. From 1976 to 1980 Craig was the Pastor of the Pleasant Hills U.M. Church. In 1980 Craig was appointed the Director of the East Ohio Conference Council on Ministries.
Craig was elected a delegate to the 1980 and 1984 General and North Central Jurisdictional Conferences of the U.M. Church, in 1980 also serving as the Secretary of the Legislative Committee on Higher and Ministry of the General Conference.
The North Central Jurisdictional Conference elected Craig a bishop in 1984. She was assigned to the Michigan Area, 1984-1992.
In 1992 she was assigned the Ohio West Area, from which she retired in 2000. As an episcopal leader, Bishop Craig presided over membership losses.
As a bishop, Craig served on the United Methodist General Commission on the Status and Role of Women (1984-1988), the U.M. General Council on Ministries (1988-1992), and the General Board of Publication.
Bishop Craig received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Baldwin-Wallace College in 1979, another from Adrian College in 1985, a Doctor of Divinity degree from Otterbein College in 1994, and another Doctor of Divinity from Lebanon Valley College (also 1994). In 1996 she was honored to be selected by her colleagues on the U.M. Council of Bishops to deliver the Episcopal Address at General Conference. In retirement, Bishop Craig has served as the Bishop in Residence and a Visiting Professor of Leadership at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio.
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Board of directors Young Women’s Christian Association, Middleburg Heights, 1976-1980.