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The Rev. William (Bill) Fowler
It was with great joy and gratitude that we welcomed Fr. Bill and Deborah Fowler to St. Thomas August 2005. Bill is the fourth rector of St. Thomas since we became a parish in 1957. He is part of a long line of priests who have served St. Thomas since the Diocese established it as a mission to Texas A&M in 1938.
Bill grew up on a ranch in the Hill Country, and graduated from college and law school at the University of Texas at Austin. For almost 20 years, Bill worked in public service and private practice of law in Washington, DC and New York City. He returned home to Texas in 1997 and entered the process for ordination as an Episcopal priest. He is a graduate of the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Bill is married to Deborah, also a lawyer, who works for a nonprofit organization involved in issues of social justice.
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The Rev. Lisa Stolley Hines
Lisa Hines was ordained a priest at St. Thomas on January 30, 2008, the first ordination of a staff member at St. Thomas in our 70-year history. A graduate of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Lisa joined the St. Thomas family in the summer of 2007, as a transitional deacon and assistant to the rector.
The daughter of an Episcopal priest, Lisa grew up in Louisiana and Oklahoma before attending the University of the South in Sewanee and the University of Texas School of Law. She practiced law in Austin for four years but soon discerned her passions lay elsewhere. While raising three boys, she joined the staff of the Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Austin as a teacher and administrator and had an active and varied lay ministry at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
Lisa is joined at St. Thomas by her youngest son, Pearce, and her husband, the Rev. J. Chris Hines, who recently retired from 12 years as a chaplain for Hospice Austin and whose career included chaplaincies at UT Canterbury, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, and St. David’s Hospital.
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