01/22/2025
Thank you Pastor Judy and welcome!
Here's the skinny on St. Timothy Lutheran Church, Norfolk, VA new interim pastor. 😁
JUDITH ANN COBB, received her M.A.R. degree (’74) from Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg and later completed her requirements for ordination at Lutheran Southern Seminary.
She has served as a teacher, counselor, community college religion teacher, radio interviewer and an ecumenical agency’s hunger coordinator, youth and education director, campus pastor, Region 8 coordinator and pastor. She served on three rosters: LCA lay professional, then ELCA associate in ministry, and ordained ministry in four call and five interims. Before retirement in 2014, she and Jim served as co-senior pastors at Ascension, Towson, MD. She is now serving as an interim at St. Timothy, Norfolk.
Church-wide, she served the ELCA on its Division of Ministry, Sacramental Task Force and ELCA rep. to the Reformed Church in America. She was a frequent columnist with Partners magazine. In 2011, Gettysburg Seminary presented her with the distinguished alumna award for excellence in parish ministry.
Judy and Jim are the parents of two sons: Christopher, a nurse in Westminster, MD and Stephen, former deputy Atty. General in VA who serves with Cozen-O’Connor law firm in Washington, DC.
In addition to interims, Judy is active at First Lutheran, Norfolk, in teaching and social ministries.