Jo Anne Lyon (born 1940 in Blackwell, Oklahoma) is Ambassador and General Superintendent Emerita of the Wesleyan Church .
[2] Lyon was ordained as a minister in the Wesleyan Church in 1996 the same year that she founded World Hope International,[3] an organization desiring to alleviate suffering and injustice through education, enterprise and community health.
From 2016-2017, Lyon served as interim Vice President of Wesley Seminary in Marion, Indiana.
She has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Northeastern Seminary and United Wesleyan College and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from both Southern Wesleyan University and Indiana Wesleyan University.
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