CJ Rhodes

Director of Religious and Spiritual Life, Alcorn State University

The Rev. Dr. CJ Rhodes is the pastor of Mount Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, and serves as the director of religious and spiritual life at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi. At Alcorn, he is also the founding director of the Hiram Rhodes Revels Institute for Ethical Leadership.

Rhodes earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Mississippi, his master of divinity from Duke Divinity School and his doctor of ministry from Wesley Biblical Seminary.

In the wider community, he is the founder and president of Clergy for Prison Reform, third vice president of the General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi, and board chair for Mission Mississippi. Rhodes was co-executive producer of “How I Got Over,” a docuseries on the Black church. He is also the author of two books: “7 Leadership Principles of Service and Success” and “Deeper Still: Ministry Empowered by the Holy Spirit.”