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Bishop's Corner

Bishop Janice Riggle Huie

Resident Bishop, Houston Area

5215 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

713-528-6881

Janice Riggle Huie serves as bishop of the Texas Annual Conference of the UMC, having been assigned there in September 2004. The Texas Annual Conference is composed of 713 congregations and 290,855 members, spread throughout east Texas. It includes Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, Texarkana, Longview, Tyler and College Station.

Since Bishop Huie’s assignment there, the Texas Annual Conference has adopted a bold new missional strategy aimed at making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. The primary priorities are as follows: Congregational Excellence (new church starts and re-vitalization of existing congregations), Clergy Excellence (recruiting gifted young pastors and supporting and training current pastors) and a Re-aligned Missional Structure.

In connection with her Episcopal assignment she serves on the Board of Trustees of The Methodist Hospital, Southwestern University, Wiley College and Lon Morris College as well as The Texas Methodist Foundation. Bishop Huie served as President of the Council of Bishops from May 2006 through May 2008.

A noted speaker and experienced leader, she has preached at numerous annual conferences and seminaries and led retreats for both pastors and laity in the area of leadership and spiritual formation. She has taught in the Mentor Program at Perkins School of Theology, served as Adjunct Faculty for the Doctor of Ministry Program at Austin Presbyterian School of Theology, and served as Churchwoman in Residence at Candler School of Theology. She was co-chair of the International Clergywomen’s Consultation in 1995, has authored articles in preaching and spirituality, and received the Bandy Distinguished Preacher Award from Emory University in 1991. She completed her term as President of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry shortly after moving to Houston in August 2004.

After graduating with honors from the University of Texas in Austin in 1969, Bishop Huie went to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, earning a Master of Theology and receiving both the Flinn Award as outstanding senior and the DeJernette Award in homiletics. In 1989 she was awarded a Doctor of Ministry degree from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, where she focused on homiletics and liturgy.

Janice Riggle Huie was born December 15, 1946, in Beeville, Texas. She and her husband Bob were married in 1970. Bob is a United Methodist pastoral counselor, L.M.P.T. and A.A.P.C. Fellow) and works for the Krist Samaritan Center in Houston. Their son Matthew is married to Shambryn Wilson Huie and they have a daughter, Abigail Reagan Huie and a son, David Riley Huie. The younger Huie family lives in Beeville, Texas where Matt operates the family farm and Shambryn is Vice president at State Bank and Trust.

Bob and Janice enjoy camping and snow skiing with their children and grandchildren.