The Rev. Dr. Jana Childers will take over as the new dean and vice president of academic affairs at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo on July 1, but she's no stranger to life on the campus.
The 59-year-old native of Taft previously served as the seminary's academic dean from 2002 to 2009. Childers replaces Dr. Elizabeth Liebert, the first Roman Catholic sister named as dean of a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary, who is stepping down to go on sabbatical leave to complete the writing of her next book....