The Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica

The Reverend Judith E. Meyer, Minister Emeritus

The Rev. Judith E. Meyer was called to serve the congregation as settled minister in 1993 and retired in 2008. She grew up in First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County in Orange, NJ and was active in the UU youth movement as a teenager. She spent a summer with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee at a work camp in Sedalia, North Carolina, during the civil rights era.

Judith has an A.B. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College and an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. Her training included Clinical Pastoral Education in hospital chaplaincy and rape crisis intervention. She received the 1981 Clarence Skinner Award for social justice preaching while still a student at Harvard.

Prior to her current settlement, she served UU churches in Rutherford and Paramus, NJ, Concord, NH, and the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, MA as Director of Ministerial Education and Vice President for Programs.

She received a D.D. in 2000 from Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Judith had the honor of being selected to be the Preacher for the Service of the Living Tradition at the 2006 UUA General Assembly in St. Louis, Missouri. Her new book, "Leaving Room for Hope: Sermons for Uncertain Times" is available here.

Judith is married to David Denton, an architect and urban planner. They live in Santa Monica with their Shiba Inu, Aki.