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The
Rev. Tom Lenhart is the 13th Senior Minister since FCC’s
founding. He was called and started in June 2006. Tom graduated from
Columbia University in 1968 with an A.B. He spent a summer in the
Scottish Universities program at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
getting a Certificate in History. At Columbia he was member of the
freshman basketball team and the Blue Key – an honorary service society.
In 1972 he graduated from Columbia Law School, where twice he was a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Upon
graduation he became a Law Clerk to two United States District Judges in
New York City. From 1973 through 2002 Tom was an Associate and then a
Partner with the law firm of Shaw Pittman (now known as Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP), a Washington, D.C. law firm. He specialized
in litigation for corporations, non-profits, universities, international
organizations, and individuals. In the early 1990s he was briefly an
Adjunct Professor at Cornell University Law School teaching about
litigation in the federal courts.
Tom,
the son of a UCC minister, was very active at his local UCC church –
Westmoreland Congregational in Bethesda, Maryland – for over 25 years.
He led his church through the 15-month process of becoming "Open and
Affirming". In 2002 after 30 years in legal practice, he felt a
different call and entered Harvard Divinity School, graduating with a
Masters in Divinity degree in 2005. During his time at Harvard he
completed a course in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Before and
after his graduation Tom was a student minister and then a ministerial
member of the staff at North-Prospect UCC in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since 2004, he has been the President of the Board and a liturgist for
the "Outdoor Church"– an ecumenical church to the homeless in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Tom's
wife Lynn has been a Christian Educator for 14 years, serving churches
in Bethesda, Maryland; Wellesley and Newton, Massachusetts and currently
serves the First Church Congregational in Fairfield, Connecticut. They
have three children, Amanda, a Senior Researcher at the Pew Internet and
American Life Project; James "JJ", who works in Real Estate Investment
for Citicorp and
Abigail, a first year resident in internal
medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. |
