Bonnie Anderson is the current president of the House of Deputies in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.[1] Jointly with the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, she is the most senior figure in the Episcopal Church. Elected in 2006 (vice-president in 2003) and re-elected in 2009, she is from the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, where she has served as Canon to the Ordinary and President of the Standing Commission. [1]
Anderson holds honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School and the University of the South (Sewanee), as well as honorary Doctor of Canon Law degrees from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and the General Theological Seminary.[2]