Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary
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Jonathan Lee Walton, an academician, preacher, and administrator who has served on the faculties of Wake Forest and Harvard divinity schools, has been named the next president of Princeton Theological Seminary.
He will be the first Black president of the seminary, which was founded in 1812, and is to officially begin his new role on January 1, 2023.
Walton, 49, who has been dean of Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity in North Carolina and dean of its chapel since 2019, will succeed President M. Craig Barnes, who has led Princeton’s seminary since 2013.
