Past and Present Ministers

Ministers

Rev. Henry W. Brown, 1868-1873
Rev. Charles P. Massey, 1886-1892
Rev. T.J. Horner, 1892-1894
Rev. Benjamin Franklin Baker (part time), 1911-1913
Rev. Charles Pease, 1913-1918
Rev. Martin F. Fereshetian (Interim), 1920-1921
Rev. Dr. Hubert Cyril Carter (Interim), 1921
Rev. Berkeley B. Blake, 1921-1927
Rev. Robert E. Starkey, 1927-1931
Rev. Robert C. Withington, 1931-1933
Rev. Clarence M. Vickland (part time), 1936
Rev. Authur Foote (Part Time), 1936-1945
Rev. Theodore Curtis Abell, 1945-1960
Rev. John Albert Taylor (Interim), 1960
Rev. Ford Lewis, 1960-1970
Rev. Josiah Bartlett (Interim), 1970
Rev. Theodore Webb, 1971-1983

Rev. Aaron Gilmartin (Interim), 1983-1984
Rev. Donald Beaudreault, 1985-1989
Rev. Eileen Karpeles (Interim), 1989-1990
Rev. D. Strong (Interim), 1990-1991
Rev. Dr. John Young, 1991-1997
Rev. Richelle Russell (Assistant Minister), 1992-1994
Rev. Shirley Ranck (Pastoral Minister), 1997-1999
Rev. Sydney Wilde (Interim co-Minister), 1999-2000
Rev. Dennis Daniel (Interim co-Minister), 1999-2000
Rev. Douglas Kraft, Lead Minister, 2000-2013
Rev. Lyn Cox, Asst Minister for Education, 2003-2006
Rev. Connie Grant, Minister for Education, 2006-2008
Rev. Roger Jones, Family Minister, 2008-2013 [not Dr. yet]
Rev. Dr. Roger Jones, Senior Minister, 2013-2021
Rev. Lucy Bunch, Assistant Minister, 2013-2021
Rev. Dr. Roger Jones & Rev. Lucy Bunch, Ministers of Equal Standing, 2021-present

Ministerial Interns

UUSS has provided practical educational opportunities to ministerial candidates over the years, including the Rev. Devorah Greenstein and the Rev. Christopher Holton Jabolonski, who served ministerial internships here in the early 2000s. In recent years, full-time ministerial interns have included the Rev. D. Scott Cooper (2016-17 church year) and Rosemary Dodd (2023-24 church year). The Rev. Sangye Hawke provided part-time ministerial services for seminary credit in 2018-19, and she was co-ordained to the UU ministry by UUSS and the UU Fellowship of Santa Cruz County in 2021. In 2019 the UUSS Board voted its intention for UUSS to serve as a “teaching congregation” with the goal of funding an internship every other year.