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Suzan Johnson Cook
Suzan Johnson Cook at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, June 14, 2011Dr. Suzan Denise Johnson Cook (born 1957) is the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, pastor, author and presidential advisor.
Biography
Johnson Cook was the first woman to be elected president of the Hampton University Ministers' Conference (in 2002) a conference which represents all of the historically African American denominations. She was also the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the American Baptist Churches USA, and the first woman to serve as a chaplain for the NYPD (beginning in 1990). [1] She founded the Bronx Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in 1996. [2] She served as a domestic policy advisor under President Bill Clinton (see One America Initiative). Dr. Johnson Cook is a senior pastor at the Believers Christian Fellowship in New York City. She is also the editor of Sister to Sister[vague] and the author of Too Blessed to Be Stressed. She lives in New York with her husband, Ronald, and their two sons.[3]
On June 15, 2010 she was nominated by president Barack Obama for the post of United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in the State Department.[4] However, her nomination was put on hold in the Senate and therefore expired without a vote at the end of the 111th session of Congress on January 3, 2011.[5]
She was renominated and confirmed on April 14, 2011.[6] She was sworn in and began work on May 16, 2011.[7] She is the first woman and first African-American to hold the post. [8]
Books
- Live Like You're Blessed: Simple Steps for Making Balance, Love, Energy, Spirit, Success, Encouragement and Devotion Part of Your Life, Doubleday, 2006. ISBN 978-0385-51719-5
- Moving Up: Ten Steps to Turning Your Life Around and Getting to the Top!, Doubleday, 2008. ISBN 978-0385-52492-2
References
- ^ http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-17/local/29572551_1_religious-freedom-johnson-cook-jewish-teachers
- ^ http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-17/local/29572551_1_religious-freedom-johnson-cook-jewish-teachers
- ^ "About Our Pastor: Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, M.Div. '83." Bronx Christian Fellowship. 8 Feb. 2008. [1]
- ^ President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts. 15 Jun. 2010
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/us/politics/15religion.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
- ^ http://www.abc-usa.org/Resources/AmericanBaptistNewsService/tabid/79/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/285/Johnson-Cook-Confirmed-As-Ambassador-At-Large-For-International-Religious-Freedom.aspx
- ^ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/05/163483.htm
- ^ http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-17/local/29572551_1_religious-freedom-johnson-cook-jewish-teachers
Categories:- Living people
- Clergy of predominantly African American Christian denominations
- Emerson College alumni
- 1957 births
- African-American people
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