David Standish Ball (June 11, 1926 – April 18, 2017) was the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States from 1984 to 1998.
Ball served in the United States Navy during World War II.
He served as a curate at Bethesda Church in Saratoga Springs, in upstate New York, for three years.
[1][7][8] Ball opposed women's ordination in the 1970s and was briefly associated with the Episcopal Synod of America but later changed his position, serving with and ordaining female priests and deacons since at least 1989.
[1][13] The Bishop Ball Golf Tournament, an annual fundraiser for the cathedral, is named in his honor.