Maud K. Jensen

Maud K. Jensen (1909- October 12, 1998) was a missionary and the first woman to receive full clergy rights in the Methodist Church in the United States.[1][2]

Early life and education

Maud Keister was from New Cumberland, New Jersey.[2][3]

Jensen graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in 1926 where she studied to become a missionary.[2] She married A. Kris Jensen, another missionary student at Bucknell, in 1928.[1]

Career

Jensen did missionary work in Korea for forty years.[1] Jensen taught at the Methodist Theological Seminary in Korea.[1]

She earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Drew University Theological School in Madison, New Jersey in 1946.[1] She applied to be ordained clergy in the Methodist New Jersey Conference but the Bishop would not approve her. A bishop in the Central Pennsylvania Conference approve her for local clergy ordination in 1952.[4] When the Methodist Church voted to allow women to have full clergy rights in 1956, Jensen was given temporary full clergy rights for two years, and obtained permanent clergy status in 1958.[4]

Later life

Jensen received her doctorate from Drew Theological School at the age of 74.[2] She died on October 12, 1998 in Madison, New Jersey.[2]

References
  1. "Maud Jensen". www.gcah.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. "wfn.org | First Methodist clergywoman dies at 94". archive.wfn.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  3. "GCSRW > Monitoring & History > Women in UMC History". gcsrw.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  4. Keller, Rosemary Skinner; Ruether, Rosemary Radford; Cantlon, Marie (2006). Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection. Indiana University Press. ISBN 025334686X.
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