Teresa Elaine Snorton (born 1955) is an American bishop in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
She also serves as the president of Churches Uniting in Christ, and on the steering committee for the World Methodist Council.
Her family was active in the Christian Episcopal Methodist Church, an historically African American denomination founded in 1870.
from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and then completed a Master of Divinity at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1982.
After being ordained to the ministry, she briefly pastored a church in Kentucky in the 1980s[4] and worked in Louisville as a psychiatric staff chaplain.
Moving to Atlanta, from 1990 to 2000, she served as executive director of the Emory University Center for Pastoral Services, and taught as an adjunct faculty member.
She co-edited Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World, published in 2009.