Nancy Ellett Allison

Pastor, activist, and friend of the earth, Dr. Nancy Ellett Allison combines vision with the ability to get things done.

For the last decade she has pastored Holy Covenant United Church of Christ in Charlotte, adding a satellite campus in the spring of 2012. Involved with groups advocating for marriage equality, earth care, racial justice and housing the homeless, she also enjoys spiritual retreats and a calming walk on the labyrinth.

Identifying herself as “Exhibit A” in the Southern Baptist banishment of women clergy, Nancy was ordained in 1981 at Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Through the years she has been a youth minister, seminary prof in Liberia, chaplain in Dallas, founding pastor of a Baptist church, interim pastor and now happy transplant in the United Church of Christ.

Nancy earned her B.A. from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and her M.Div. and Doctor of Philosophy degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

She and her husband, Dale Allison, were married in 1985. Dale serves as the Church Administrator for Myers Park Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. They have two young adult daughters, Carole and Laura.

Among her many professional responsibilities, Nancy finds time to be active and involved in the lives and interests of her children and to plant lots of perennial flowers which she then neglects to weed!