Elizabeth Platz
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The Rev Elizabeth Alvina Platz was the first woman in North America ordained by a Lutheran church body. She was ordained in November 1970 into the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). The ordination of women, approved earlier that year by both the LCA and The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was controversial. The ALC ordained its first woman as a pastor, the Rev Barbara Andrews, in December of the same year. The ALC and LCA ceased to exist in 1988 when they merged with the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Pastor Platz currently serves as a chaplain at the Lutheran Campus Ministry of the University of Maryland, College Park.
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