Source: Worldwide Faith News
http://www.wfn.org/2009/11/msg00080.html
Kathryn M. Lohre, assistant director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America representative to the World Council of Churches Central Committee, has been elected the President Elect of the National Council of Churches by the NCC Governing Board.
Lohre will assume the office January 1, 2010. She will also be installed as NCC President Elect Thursday evening, November 12, in St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis. The Rev. Peg Chemberlin, current NCC President Elect, will be installed as NCC President.
Chemberlin and Lohre will serve in their new offices until December 31, 2012. Constitutionally, the NCC President Elect succeeds to the Presidency.
Lohre, 32, will be 34 when it is time to succeed to the National Council of Churches Presidency in 2013. She will be the second youngest president of the Council since the Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, an American Baptist, became president in 1979 at the age of 33.