By Bob Allen / Baptist News Global
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The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty voted Sept. 26 to name Amanda R. Tyler, a former BJC intern and staff member, as its next executive director.
Tyler, who currently works as Ways and Means counsel for U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), will succeed Brent Walker, who is retiring after 27 years with the BJC and 18 years as top executive of the religious liberty watchdog organization which serves 15 Baptist bodies in the United States, in January.
“We believe Amanda Tyler is the right person to lead the BJC forward with grace and tenacity to defend and extend religious liberty in an ever-changing world,” said Daniel E. Glaze, chair of the BJC board of directors who led an 11-month search process.
Tyler, 38, will be the sixth director of the Washington-based education and advocacy organization founded in 1946, and the first woman to hold the position. …
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Tyler, a native of Austin, Texas, who grew up attending Highland Park Baptist Church, was introduced to the BJC as an undergraduate at Georgetown University. She volunteered in the office and later served on staff as assistant to the general counsel during the last major leadership change, when Walker inherited the executive director post from James Dunn, the feisty and quotable Texan who led the BJC from 1981 until his retirement in 1999. …
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