PROFILE
IT is perhaps fitting that in the 50th anniversary month of the historic decision to ordain women as parish ministers in the Church of Scotland that a woman parish minister has been nominated as Moderator of this year’s General Assembly.
The Rev Susan Brown, minister of Dornoch Cathedral since 1998, is honoured to have been chosen. As one of the first woman ministers to serve in the Highlands – she was called to Killearnan in 1985 – she was also the first woman minister to serve in the presbyteries of Ross and Sutherland and has served as Moderator in both. She is the first Moderator-Designate from a Highland parish since the Very Rev Dr James Simpson in 1994 – her immediate predecessor at Dornoch.