Alton B. Pollard III

President, Louisville Seminary

The Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard III is the president of Louisville Seminary. Before that, he served 11 years at Howard University’s School of Divinity, where he was professor of religion and culture and dean. As an ordained Baptist minister, he was pastor of John Street Baptist Church in Massachusetts, New Red Mountain Baptist Church in North Carolina and AME churches in Tennessee. He also has directed the Program of Black Church Studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and held faculty appointments at St. Olaf College and Wake Forest University. Pollard earned a B.A. in religion & philosophy and business management from Fisk University, an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Duke University’s Department of Religion.