Interim Pastor

Originally from Dallas, TX, Pastor Stacy grew up at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in 2007. She is a transitional minister and recently served congregations in New Haven, CT, and Auburn, NY, before joining Fanwood Church in March 2025 as our interim pastor. 

 

Until 2023, she served as the Director of Strategic Innovation at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, TN, implementing hospital, community, and faith-based programs to address social determinants of health, and as pastor of Buntyn Presbyterian Church in Memphis. She has worked in healthcare, education, and interreligious advocacy, and at Presbyterian churches in New York, Indiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas. She holds her doctorate from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN; master's from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and undergraduate degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. 

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Stacy is the “wicked stepmother” to three fabulous young adults: Clayton, a physician specializing in LGBTQ adolescent psychiatry who lives with his husband Roger in Chattanooga,TN; Molly, a Child Life specialist in Memphis who is planning a wedding to her fiancé Nkai, and Summer, also in Memphis and newly-wed to her wife Rose! Stacy’s late husband, Kevin Gallagher, worked in progressive politics and as an architectural blacksmith, and died in 2020 after a five-year duel with brain cancer. Her mom Kathy lives in Georgia and is regular participant in our online worship.

 

Stacy is a member of the Iona Community in Scotland and specializes in Iona style music and worship leadership. She loves to travel and recently visited Japan, India and South Africa, and is planning trips to Turkey, Guatemala and Kenya next year. She has been skydiving, canyoning, hang gliding, and managed to survive a via ferrata on the Hammer’s Edge in Switzerland. She also enjoys history podcasts, singing too loud to Gen X radio, taking the train to New York City to see good theater, and performing as "Father Stacy," her stand-up alter ego.