The General Assembly elects a moderator at each assembly who moderates the rest of the sessions of that assembly meeting and continues as moderator until the next assembly convenes ( two years later ) to elect a new moderator.

The moderator of the 218th General Assembly was the Rev.

Members serve one six-year term, with the exception of the present Moderator of the General Assembly ( one 2-year term ), the past Moderator of the General Assembly ( one 2-year term ), the moderator of Presbyterian Women ( one 3-year term ), ecumenical advisory members ( one 2-year term, eligible for two additional terms ), and stewardship and audit committee at-large members ( one 2-year term, eligible for two additional terms ).

Presbyteries and the General Assembly elect a moderator each year.

* Joel Belz, former publisher of WORLD Magazine and moderator of the 31st PCA General Assembly

* D. James Kennedy ( 1930 – 2007 ), late author, pastor, social conservative activist, and moderator of the 16th PCA General Assembly

* Kenneth L. Ryskamp, Senior Judge in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and moderator of the 9th PCA General Assembly

At one time or another he was a director of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut and a director of the Missionary Society of Connecticut ; he served as moderator of the General Conference of Congregational Churches of Connecticut, and he was a delegate of the Congregational Churches to the national council.

Perry served as moderator of the Fellowship until 2005, when Nancy Wilson was elected moderator by the General Conference ; she was formally installed in a special service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D. C. on October 29, 2005.

Each year, around the first weekend in December, the university has a fundraising dinner featuring well-known speakers, such as Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr., former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H. W. Bush, TV personality Regis Philbin, retired General Norman Schwarzkopf, Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton, Senator Elizabeth Dole, former US Senate Majority Leader and physician, Dr. Bill Frist, popular radio commentator Paul Harvey, NBC Today Show weatherman Willard Scott, NFL football player, commentator & actor Merlin Olsen, country comedian Jerry Clower, former Alabama head coach Gene Stallings, historic CBS-TV News anchor and reporter Walter Cronkite, former First Lady Barbara Bush, former NBC News Anchor and former Meet the Press moderator Tom Brokaw and most recently Emmy Award winning comedian Tim Conway.

He was moderator of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1846.

He was the first moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, having previously been moderator of the Free General Assembly.

When the United Church of Canada was founded in 1925, General Councils were biannual, giving each moderator a two-year term of office.

He was elected moderator of the General Assembly held at Dundee in May 1597.

He was appointed moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in May 1823, and served also as convenor ( chair ) of the Indian Mission Committee in 1834-47.

Cornell served as Scituate's town meeting moderator in 1768, 1781 and 1785 and as a Deputy ( Representative ) from Scituate to the General Assembly in 1772, 1774 and 1775.

Gillespie was elected moderator of the Assembly in 1648, but the duties of that office ( the court continued to sit from the 12 July to the 12 August ) told on his health ; he fell into consumption, and died at Kirkcaldy on the 17 December 1648.

In 1589 he was moderator of the General Assembly and on several occasions represented his party in conferences with the court.

He was also a member of the General Assembly Council from 1996 – 1999 and served as the moderator of the 208th General Assembly ( 1996 ).

He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of American Presbyterianism, and was the moderator of the General Assembly of 1891.

Manitoba College started in Kildonan in 1871, received support from both Canadian churches prior to 1875, and at the 1883 General Assembly, their moderator, Rev.

Also in June 2010, Hughley served as special guest moderator of ABC's " The View " for one day.

Williams has spoken at the Smithsonian ’ s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ’ s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ended legal segregation in public schools, and was selected by the United States Census Bureau as moderator of its first program beginning its 2010 effort.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

The thread was later deleted by an unknown moderator.

President Bill Clinton, the moderator in a town meeting discussing the topic " Race In America ", in response to a participant argument that the issue was not affirmative action but " racial preferences " asked the participant a loaded question: " Do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative-action program that produced Colin Powell?

Then-OSI Board member Danese Cooper was the principal moderator of osi-discuss.

It is an effective neutron moderator and was used in James Chadwick's 1932 experiments to identify the neutron.

He was the moderator of the general synod which met in April, 1571, at La Rochelle and decided not to abolish church discipline or to acknowledge the civil government as head of the Church, as the Paris minister Jean Morel and the philosopher Pierre Ramus demanded ; it also decided to confirm anew the Calvinistic doctrine of the Lord's Supper ( by the expression: " substance of the body of Christ ") against Zwinglianism, which caused a very unpleasant discussion between Beza and Ramus and Heinrich Bullinger.

Robert Earle was moderator for the rest of the run.

" In all the heated theological controversies of the day, particularly the long and bitter one concerning the views put forward by Dr Horace Bushnell, he was conspicuous, using his influence to bring about harmony, and in the councils of the Congregational churches, over two of which, the Brooklyn councils of 1874 and 1876. he presided as moderator, he manifested great ability both as a debater and as a parliamentarian.

Paisley soon became the moderator of this denomination and was re-elected every year, except one, for 57 years.

The moderator of Kotikemia was acquitted of responsibility in court.

The first town meeting was held December 18, 1793, with Moses Bascom as moderator.

Granted in 1765 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, New Hampton was originally known as Moultonborough Addition after then-Colonel Jonathan Moulton, who held the position of town moderator.

Bedford's first moderator was Mayor John Goffe, son of Colonel John Goffe, for whom Goffstown was named.

Ebenezer Gregory was elected moderator and the first town officers chosen, as far as can be determined from the minutes of the meeting, were school directors-Dr. Uriah M. Gregory, William Gorsline and Samuel Delamater.

Joktan Putnam was the first Town moderator.

The moderator of an e-mail list for global numbers station hobbyists claimed " Someone on the Spooks list had already cracked the code for a repeated transmission Havana to Miami if it was received garbled.

The Secretary-General was envisioned by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a " world moderator ", but the vague definition provided by the UN Charter left much room for interpretation by those who would later inhabit the position.

In 1992, returning to the Democratic Party, he entered the New Hampshire primary and campaigned for the Democratic Presidential nomination, but was excluded from the first and therefore most important televised debate by its moderator Tom Brokaw of NBC.

The user then decides if the moderator acted fairly or not, and if not, in what respect the moderator was wrong.

This council had a major voice in the governance of the realm, especially in the periods of regency, where the Regent ( moderator imperii ) was dependent on their consent to rule.

He was the only son of the three children of George Ritchie, D. D., minister of the parish and a man of scholarship and culture, who was elected to the office of moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1870.