Dorothy Sanders Wells is the eleventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, elected in February 2024 to succeed Brian R. Seage.
She was a student of vocal performance at Rhodes College, graduating in 1982.
[2] She earned a juris doctor from the University of Memphis,[3] and worked as a lawyer for 18 years prior to her ordination to the priesthood.
[1] She has a master of divinity from the Memphis Theological Seminary, and a doctorate in ministry from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
[3] She was rector of St. George's Episcopal Church in Germantown, Tennessee since 2013 until becoming bishop.