This is the Unitarian Universalist Association's official list of UUA "Credentialed Religious Professionals", i.e. credentialed UUA ministers and credentialed UUA Religious Educators, who resigned while under investigation for misconduct, sexual misconduct or non-sexual misconduct, or who were removed from UUA credentialed status due to their misconduct as of today.
i.e. Thursday aka Thor's Day August 7 2025
There are some names missing from this list, including the name of a misconducting UUA minister who was rather belatedly removed from fellowship by the UUA's Ministerial Fellowship Committee last October after pleading guilty to "a felony charge of attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse
with a child under 16 in connection with a September 2022 incident that
ended in Conshohocken" a year earlier in October 2024.
What is the UUA's explanation for the glaring omission of Rev. David Gregory Kohlmeier aka Rev. David Miller Kohlmeier from this recently updated list of credentialed religious professionals, aka UUA ministers and UUA Religious Educators etc. who either resigned while under investigation for misconduct or were removed from credentialed status due to misconduct after investigations concluded they were guilty?
Ministers Removed from Fellowship by the Ministerial Fellowship Committee
- 1968 Karl Hultberg: Removed from Preliminary Fellowship for Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 1985 Don Wheat: Removed for Settlement System Violation (reinstated in 1987)
- 1988 John Harold Hawkins: Removed for Non-disclosure of Previous Felony Conviction (sexual misconduct with a minor)
- 1990 Anthony Friess Perrino: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 1992 Jonathan Dobrer: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct); 1992 appealed; 1993 removal upheld
- 1993 Mack Mitchell: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming (criminal conviction for statutory rape and kidnapping)
- 1996 William G. Wagner: Removed for Noncooperation and Noncompliance; appealed to Board of Review and returned to fellowship
- 1998 Don Bissett: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct); 2002 applied for reinstatement; appeal denied
- 2014 John C. McCarthy: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming and Noncooperation (financial malfeasance)
- 2017 Ron Robinson: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming (criminal possession of child pornography)
- 2020 Todd Eklof: Removed for Noncooperation (Refusal to Engage Process)
- 2021
Scott McNeill: Removed for Conduct Unbecoming (bullying and abusive
behavior in the workplace); appealed to Board of Review; appeal denied
- 2022 Kate Rohde: Removed for defaming and interfering in the ministry of colleagues
- 2022
Terry Cummings: Removed for concerning behaviors towards staff and an
inability to maintain successful professional relationships
- 2022 David Morris: Removed for Noncooperation (refusal to complete probation)
- 2024 Marian Stewart: Removed for Noncooperation (Refusal to Comply with Probation)
Ministers Who Resigned Fellowship Pending Misconduct Reviews
- 1966 Ross Alan Weston: Plagiarism complaint
- 1973
William Fortner: Financial Malfeasance (also asked to resign from
congregation & in 1977 was removed
from Accredited Religious Educators list)
- 1984 Alexander (Sandy) McEachern: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct — criminal conviction for child molestation)
- 1984 John Quirk: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 1991 Peter Jenkins: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 1994 Forrest Whitman: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 1994 Andrea Greenwood: Resigned Preliminary Fellowship (investigation incomplete)
- 2000 G.C. Bartlett Gould: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2002 George D. Exoo: Conduct Unbecoming (conducting a ministry of assisted suicide without accountability or oversight)
- 2005 Doug Strong: Conduct Unbecoming (non-disclosure of previous criminal conviction; and conviction of public exposure)
- 2007 David Ord: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2008 Louis Schwebius: Conduct Unbecoming (plagiarism)
- 2008 Calvin Dame: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2009 Jennifer Justice: Conduct Unbecoming (ethical boundaries violation)
- 2011 Nathan Stone: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2013 Lauren J. Thomas: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2013 Eliza C. Galaher: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2014 Barbara Jamestone: Conduct Unbecoming (ethical boundaries violations)
- 2016 Stephen Sinclair: Conduct Unbecoming (ethical boundaries violation)
- 2019 Aaron McEmrys: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2019 Roger Mohr: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2019 Daniel S. O’Connell: Conduct Unbecoming (bullying and abusive behavior in the workplace)
- 2019 Justin Osterman: Conduct Unbecoming (bullying and abusive behavior in the workplace)
- 2023 Stephen Furrer: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct)
- 2023 Craig Schwalenberg: Conduct Unbecoming (bullying and abusive behavior in the workplace)
Religious Educators Whose Credential Was Terminated by the Religious Education Credentialing Committee
- 2025
Gregory Carrow-Boyd: Conduct Unbecoming (sexual misconduct);
determination upheld by the Board of Review on appeal; also removed from
Aspirant status by the MFC
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