Glenda S. Curry

Glenda S. Curry (born June 20, 1953) is the twelfth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.

In an earlier career as a nurse and college administrator she was president of Troy State University at Montgomery from 1991 to 1999 where she helped created the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.

At the time of her investiture, she was one of three women serving as bishops of Protestant denominations in Birmingham, Alabama.

[1] At the diocesan convention in January 2025, she called for the election of her successor since she will reach the mandatory retirement age of 72 in June 2025.

[3][4] She was a parishioner at St. John's Episcopal Church in Montgomery at the time she received her call to ordained ministry.

She was elected bishop coadjutor by the Diocese of Alabama on the second ballot on January 18, 2020, at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham.