Reverend Judy W. Loehr

We would like to extend a huge welcome to The Reverend Judy W. Loehr. Pastor Judy comes to us from St. Andrew's UMC in Alexandria, VA where she has served since June 2000. She has served churches in Maryland, California, Tennessee, and Florida, both as musician and pastor. She served as the director of church music and worship resources for the General Board of Discipleship, Section on Worship, Nashville, TN and during that time was a consultant to the Hymnal Revision Committee.

Pastor Judy is a graduate of Baylor University /Waco, Texas, having earned a Bachelor of Music degree. She continued her studies and
received the Master of Music in Voice from The Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University / Baltimore, Maryland. She also holds two artists diplomas from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria in voice and opera.

For 11 years Judy was the director of spiritual formation and the arts and dean of the chapel at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville; she graduated from Vanderbilt Divinity School/Vanderbilt University in 1994 with a Master of Divinity degree, where she held the Dean's Scholarship and was a teaching assistant in worship. In 1996, Reverend Loehr was ordained an elder in the Tennessee Conference.

Pastor Judy has concertized and led workshops and seminars across the country and throughout Europe and is well-known for her work in liturgy, music, and the visual arts.