LUTHER SEMINARY - Key Persons


Alan Padgett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Professor of Systematic Theology
  • Professor of Systematic Theology and the Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary Chair of Theology

Alex Aakre

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD STAFF
  • Production Editor

Alicia Granholm

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communities & Consulting / Department: Innovation

Alison Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Philanthropic Adviser / Department: Seminary Relations

Alvin Luedke

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Rural Ministry

Amy Marga

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Systematic Theology

Andrew Root

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry

Anna Marsh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Old Testament

Annette Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Seminary Relations / Department: Seminary Relations
Annette Schmidt Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Seminary Relations Department: Seminary Relations Phone: 651-641-3431 aschmidt001@luthersem.edu Office: BH 209

Arland Hultgren


Arlene Flancher

Job Titles:
  • Innovation Program Coordinator / Department: Innovation

Ashley Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Candidacy Coordinator / Department: Contextual Learning

Barb Ostrander

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Marketing Director, FAST Global Solutions

Barbara Hutson

Job Titles:
  • Prospect Development and Campaign Manager / Department: Seminary Relations

Ben McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Web Content Manager Editor

Bethany Riethmeier

Job Titles:
  • Donor Engagement Coordinator / Department: Seminary Relations

Beverly Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care

Bill Silva-Breen

Job Titles:
  • Director, Financial Aid / Department: Financial Aid

Bishop Constanze Hagmaier

Job Titles:
  • Bishop

Bishop Jon Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Bishop
  • Director of Rural Ministries / Department: Academic Dean

Brenda Skelton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Retired CEO / Hopkins, MN

C. Dean Freudenberger


Cameron Howard

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Associate Professor of Old Testament

Carla Dahl

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Congregational and Community Care Leadership and George C. Weinman Chair of Pastoral Theology and Cdahl001@Luthersem.Edu

Carlos Peña

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Treasurer of the Board of Directors
  • Finance & Administration
  • Member of Committee
  • President / Kleen Supply, Co. Portland, or

Carrie Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Payroll Manager / Human Resources Coordinator / Department: Human Resources

Charles Amjad-Ali

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Martin Luther King, Jr., Prof. for Justice & Christian Community

Chenar Howard

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Student Affairs

Chris Jacobsen

Job Titles:
  • Director

Clarance Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice President / Huntington Bank / St. Paul, MN

Colleen Clish

Job Titles:
  • Data Reporting Analyst / Department: Enterprise Applications

Craig Koester

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus and Asher O. and Carrie Nasby Chair of New Testament.

Craig Van Gelder

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Cong Mission

Cristina Lien

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Senior Manager

Crystal Zemlin

Job Titles:
  • Business Accounts Specialist / Department: Business Office

Dale Dobias

Job Titles:
  • Director of Library Services / Department: Library

Daniel Sassenberg

Job Titles:
  • Director of Advancement Services / Department: Seminary Relations

David Fredrickson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of New Testament

David Rutlen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiovascular Medicine / Oregon Health and Science University / Milwaukee, WI

David Scherer

Job Titles:
  • Contextual Learning Associate, Christian Public Leader / Department: Contextual Learning

David Tiede

Job Titles:
  • President and Prof. Emeritus, New Testament

Dawn Alitz

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communities and Coaching / Department: Innovation

Dean Gruner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Secretary
  • Retired CEO / Chairman / SearchAmerica, Inc / Hudson, WI

Dean Marsha Foster Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Dee Stokes

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Seeds Project / Department: Innovation

Dennis Everson

Job Titles:
  • Contextual Education

Diane Jacobson


Dirk Lange

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Worship and Frederik a. Schiotz Chair of Christian Missions

Douachee Lee

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Communications

Dr. Fred Gaiser

Job Titles:
  • Editor Emeritus, Word & World / Falcon Heights, MN
  • Professor Emeritus, Old Testament

Dr. Javier Goitia

Job Titles:
  • Director of Theological Education, ELCA / Chicago, IL

Dr. Mary Jane Haemig

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Dr. Sarah Henrich

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Professor Emeritus of New Testament

Drew Dittmann

Job Titles:
  • Computing Technologies Support Specialist / Department: IT User Support

Dustin Williams

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator / Department: IT Systems

Dwight Zscheile

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Innovation and Professor of Congregational Mission and Leadership / Department: Innovation

Elizabeth Schoenknecht

Job Titles:
  • Philanthropic Adviser / Department: Seminary Relations

Emily McQuillan

Job Titles:
  • Content and Web Specialist / Department: Innovation

Erica Dolmar

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator / Department: Contextual Learning

Gail Olson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
  • Retired

Gary Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology and the Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary Chair of Theology

Gerri Stepanek

Job Titles:
  • Controller / Department: Business Office

Gina Lotzer - President

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the President
  • President
Gina Lotzer Executive Assistant to the President and Board of Directors Department: President Phone: 651-641-3215 glotzer001@luthersem.edu Office: GH 105

Grace Pomroy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Director of Stewardship Leaders
  • Director of Stewardship Leaders Program / Department: Innovation

Gracia Grindal

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Rhetoric

Guillermo Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Director for Advanced Theological Education Professor and Martin Luther King Jr. Chair for Justice and Christian Commun / Department: Advanced Theological Education ( Ph.D., Th.M., D.Min. )

Heather Hove

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Development / Department: Seminary Relations

Heidi Droegemueller

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Seminary Relations / Department: Seminary Relations
  • Vice President of Seminary Relations, Executive Director of the Luther Seminary Foundation

Jacob Fredrikson

Job Titles:
  • Computing Technologies Support Specialist / Department: IT User Support

Jake Hennes

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development / Department: Seminary Relations

Jake Ratkovich

Job Titles:
  • Custodian I / Department: Maintenanc

James Boyce

Job Titles:
  • Prof Emeritus, New Testament

James Nestingen


Jamie Gile

Job Titles:
  • Bills and Events Coordinator - Faith Lead Academy / Department: Innovation

Janet Ramsey

Job Titles:
  • Department: Innovation
  • Pastor George Weinman Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology and Ministry

Jeanne Hartfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Pastor

Jen Gruendler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Enrollment Services / Department: Admissions

Jeni Grangaard

Job Titles:
  • Seminary Pastor / Department: Seminary Pastor

Jeni Mullenix

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator for Advanced Theological Education / Department: Advanced Theological Education ( Ph.D., Th.M., D.Min. )

Jennifer Pietz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of New Testament

Jennifer Rowdon

Job Titles:
  • Department: Contextual Learning
  • Project Manager / Department: Innovation

Jennifer Thiel

Job Titles:
  • Web and Email Coordinator / Department: Marketing and Communications

Jennifer Wojciechowski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Editor
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD STAFF
  • Assistant Professor of Church History

Jessi LeClear

Job Titles:
  • Director of Enrollment Services

Jim Matthias

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, IT User Support / Department: IT User Support

Jody Nyenhuis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, MDivX Pilot Project / Department: Academic Dean

Joey Goodall

Job Titles:
  • Department: Center for Lifelong Learning

John Coskran

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Finance / Department: Administration and Financ

Joy Moore

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Professor of Biblical Preaching
  • Professor of Biblical Preaching / Department: Academic Dean

Juli Kramer

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor / Department: Word & World

Karen Gieseke

Job Titles:
  • Deployed Associate, Contextual Learning / Department: Contextual Learning

Karoline Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Director DMin, Professor and the Marbury E. Anderson Chair of Biblical Preaching

Kate Norlander

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Project and Production Manager / Department: Marketing and Communications

Kathryn Schifferdecker

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Elva B. Lovell Chair of Old Testament

Katie Langston

Job Titles:
  • Director of Digital Strategy & Executive Communication Specialist / Department: Innovation

Kenneth Reynhout

Job Titles:
  • Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Assessment, and Research / Department: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Kristofer Coffman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of New Testament

Ladd Bjorneby

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair

Laurel Forsgren

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Online Learning / Department: Office of Technology

Leon Rodrigues

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Inclusion and Belonging, Dean of Students / Department: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Linda Norman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Lisa Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Philanthropic Adviser / Department: Seminary Relations

Lisa Swanson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Faleide, Student Board Member

Lois Farag

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Early Church History
Lois Farag joined the seminary as assistant professor of early church history in 2005. She retired at the end of February. "Lois brought a new and engaging set of perspectives to the teaching of the history of Christianity. As an Egyptian monastic from the Coptic Orthodox Church, she brought an Egyptian perspective, an Orthodox perspective, […]

Lois Malcolm

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Professor and Olin and Amanda Fjelstad Registad Chair for Systematic Theology
  • Professor of Systematic Theology

Marge Hegge - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Retired Professor of Nursing / South Dakota State University

Maria Green Cowles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Maria May

Job Titles:
  • Contextual Learning Program Specialist / Department: Contextual Learning

Maria Olson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Registrar / Department: Registrar

Marie Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Director, International Student & Scholar Affairs / Department: International Student and Scholar Affairs

Mark Granquist

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD STAFF
  • Associate Professor of Church History, Ex Officio
  • Professor and Lloyd and Annelotte Svendsbye Chair in Church History Editor, Word & World

Mark Hillmer


Mark Throntveit

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Old Testament

Mark Tranvik

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Professor of Reformation History and Theology

Mary Ann Teske

Job Titles:
  • Catalog & Collection Maintenance Librarian / Department: Library

Mary Hess

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Educational Leadership

Mary Preus


Mary Speranza-Reeder

Job Titles:
  • Registrar / Department: Registrar

Matthew Schornstein

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, IT Systems / Department: IT Systems

Matthew Schutz

Job Titles:
  • Controller / Department: Business Office

Matthew Sheppard

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations / Department: Operations & Facilities

Matthew Skinner

Job Titles:
  • Professor of New Testament

Michael Binder

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Congregational Mission and Leadership

Michael Chan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD STAFF
  • Book Editor

Michael Morrow - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
  • Vice President for Finance and Administration, Treasurer of the Luther Seminary Foundation
  • VP of Finance and Administration / Department: Administration and Finance

Michael Rogness


Mike Jerstad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner / Prairie Gold Venture Partners / Minnetonka, MN

Patrick Keifert

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus and Olin S. and Amanda Fjelstad Reigstad Chair of Systematic Theology

Patty Horazdovsky

Job Titles:
  • Enrollment Management Specialist / Department: Admissions

Paul Berge


Paul Daniels

Job Titles:
  • Archivist / Curator / Department: Archives and Museum

Paul Jacobson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Paul Lokken

Job Titles:
  • Director Emeritus of Graduate Theological Education

Paul Sponheim


Paul Westermeyer

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Church Music and Seminary Cantor

Peter Sethre

Job Titles:
  • Director Emeritus, Continuing Education

Peter Susag

Job Titles:
  • Writing Support, Library Acquisitions, Title IX Coordinator / Department: Library

Peter Watters

Job Titles:
  • Circulation & Collections Coordinator / Department: Library

Rachel Postler

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager / Department: Innovation

Randy Kyle

Job Titles:
  • Chief Human Resources Officer / Department: Human Resources

Randy Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Dir., CLI Prof., Context Ed.

Rev. Cynthia Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • District Superintendent, River Valley District

Richard Nysse

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Old Testament

Rick Foss

Job Titles:
  • Director Emeritus of Contextual Learning

Robert Brusic

Job Titles:
  • Seminary Pastor Emeritus

Robert Nesse

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Retired CEO / Mayo Health Clinic / Chicago, IL

Roberta Dale

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant / Department: Student Affairs

Robin J. Steinke - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • President and Professor of Systematic Theology / Department: President

Rod Maeker


Roger Eggen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Founder, Analytical Instruments, LLC

Roland Martinson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Children, Youth & Family and Pastoral Car

Roland Miller


Rolf Jacobson - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Professor
Rolf Jacobson Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Old Testament and The Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry Phone: 651-641-3491 rjacobso@luthersem.edu Office: GH 304

Ronald Hosek

Job Titles:
  • Maintenance Technician / Department: Maintenanc

Roy Harrisville


Ruth Kimmelshue

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Senior Vice President / Cargill Corporation / St. Paul, MN

Sam Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Database Coordinator / Department: Seminary Relations

Samuel Zalanga

Job Titles:
  • Director of Inclusion and Belonging / Department: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Sandra Hammerlind

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD STAFF
  • Office Manager -

Sandy Olson

Job Titles:
  • MDivX Administrative Assistant / Department: Faculty Support Services

Sarah Luedtke-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Affairs / Department: Student Affairs

Scott Krajewski

Job Titles:
  • Director of IT and CIO / Department: Office of Technology

Sean Forde

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of the Board of Directors

Sianeh Miller-Crusoe

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager

Sitraka Rakotoarivelo

Job Titles:
  • Media Production Specialist

Steven Eighmey

Job Titles:
  • Custodian / Department: Housekeeping

Steven Huseth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Retired

Steven Thomason

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation

Susan Brooks

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Faith Lead Academy / Department: Innovation

Terra Zosel

Job Titles:
  • Operations Coordinator / Department: Administration and Finance

Terri Elton

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Leadership

Tessa Pinkstaff

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager / Department: Center for Lifelong Learning

Tim Coltvet

Job Titles:
  • Director of Contextual Learning / Department: Contextual Learning

Tim Larson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Planned Giving Adviser / Department: Seminary Relations

Tom Mullaney

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Manager / Department: Maintenance

Tom Witt

Job Titles:
  • Chapel Musician and Chapel Office Administration / Department: Seminary Pastor

Tony Herrera

Job Titles:
  • Staff Accountant / Department: Business Office

Tracey Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of Committee
  • Statewide Director
  • Student Affairs

Trevor Schaeffer

Job Titles:
  • Advancement Services Coordinator / Department: Seminary Relations

Trina Smith

Job Titles:
  • Institutional Research Contractor / Department: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Walter Sundberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Church History

Wendell Debner


Wondimu Soness

Job Titles:
  • Member of the WORD & WORLD BOARD
  • Student Board Member

Zach Gingerich

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator of Luther Brass / Department: Seminary Pastor