The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, ThD

Vice Chair, The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees

Dean Emerita

Seminary of the Southwest

Austin, TX

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge serves as Vice Chair of The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees and is currently the assisting priest at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin, Texas. In 2013, she became dean emerita of the Seminary of the Southwest after serving on the faculty as the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr. Professor of New Testament and as Academic Dean. Prior to joining the seminary faculty in 1999, Cynthia taught at Harvard University and the College of the Holy Cross.

She was a member of the steering committee for Theological Education in the Anglican Communion, chair of the board of the Episcopal Evangelism Society, and president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars.

She is a contributor to The New Oxford Annotated Bible and the Women's Bible Commentary, and the author of Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John and Community and Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition. She co-edited The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. She is the co-editor of the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament. She also wrote A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark.

She was elected to her first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

She received her MDiv, ThM, and ThD from Harvard and a BA from Williams College.