The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Texas consists of three priests and three lay communicants within the diocese, elected by Council for three-year terms. It functions as a committee of advice to the bishop and is called at the bishop’s discretion, or it may meet of its own accord. The Standing Committee gives consent for persons to become candidates for Holy Orders, consent for ordinations and consent to elections of bishops in other dioceses. When there is no bishop or bishop coadjutor, the Standing Committee becomes the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese.
PRESIDENT The Rev. Hannah Atkins Romero
SECRETARY Rebecca Brindley
ASSISTANT Ana Gonzales May
(Canonical requirements: elected at Council by ballot; Nominations Committee to submit two names per position; 3-year term; one priest and one lay person elected every Council; if full term served has to lay out one year; meets typically 6 times a year at Camp Allen, the Diocesan Center, or Diocesan Council.)
To Council 2025
Vyonne Carter-Johnson, Grace, Houston, President for ’24-‘25
The Rev. Cn. Simón Bautista Betances, Christ Church Cathedral
To Council 2026
The Rev. Eileen O’Brien, St. James’, Austin, Nominations Committee Representative for ‘24-‘25
Jennifer McGowan, St. John the Divine, Houston, Secretary for ‘24-‘25
To Council 2027
The Rev. Bill Carroll, Trinity, Longview
Barbara Evans-Chowning, All Saints’, Fort Worth
