The Rev. Canon Hall has served parishes in California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Pennsylvania in positions including vicar, rector and Senior Associate for Education. Hall has been chaplain at Cranbrook Schools in Michigan, chair of the Campus Ministry Study Committee, and for twelve years was chaplain at Camp Stevens in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He has also played key roles in diocesan programs as Bishop’s Chaplain and, later, as Sexual Misconduct Officer.

The new Dean and President has been a lecturer or Adjunct Professor at Yale Divinity School, Case Western University’s School of Management, Claremont School of Theology, UCLA and the Department of Religion at Cranbrook Schools. He is a past recipient of the Episcopal Church Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

In announcing his appointment, the seminary’s Board Chair Salme Steinberg praised the work of a trustee search committee which completed a comprehensive, national search in record time. She noted that “Dr. Hall is an impressive leader, teacher and administrator, and is the perfect choice to lead Seabury to an ever stronger role in leadership and service to the Church. The Board of Trustees looks forward with great anticipation to working with Dean Hall and sharing in his vision for Seabury’s future.”

The chair of the trustees’ Search Advisory Committee was the Rev. Dr. Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr. Committee members included trustees James H. Hawk, Mary P. Murley, James Steen and Richard H. Winters, faculty representative Paula S. D. Barker and student representative Marianna Gronek. The Rt. Rev. Frederick H. Borsch served as consultant.

Hall succeeds former Dean and President James B. Lemler who has accepted a national position with the Episcopal Church as Director of Mission.