Mark Labberton was the Clifford L. Penner Presidential Chair at Fuller Theological Seminary from 2013 to 2023.
Before he became Fuller's president, he served for 16 years as senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California.
[1] Having grown up in Yakima, Washington,[2] Labberton states that he was raised in a home that disdained religion.
Labberton embraced Christianity during his undergraduate years at Whitman College.
He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and served in pastoral ministry for three decades.