The Rev. Geoffrey A. Black was elected General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ in June 2009. Prior to that, he served as Conference Minister of the UCC's New York Conference for nine years beginning in 2000.

Geoffrey Black previously served as a Minister for Church Life and Leadership with the then-Office for Church Life and Leadership (currently Parish Life and Leadership), a national agency of the United Church of Christ housed at the UCC's national offices in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Prior to joining the staff of OCLL in 1994, he served as Pastor of the Congregational UCC of South Hempstead (N.Y.). During his years in ministry, Black also has served as assistant chaplain at Brown University, associate minister at St. Albans Congregational UCC in Queens, Lecturer in the Field Education Department at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and Protestant chaplain at Adelphi University.

In his capacity as Minister for Church Life and Leadership, Black was active in several key aspects of the ministry. In addition to engaging in the work common to all OCLL staff such as ministerial authorization and search and call, he devoted special attention to ecclesiastical endorsement, ministerial formation, congregational life and the development of resources for the multiracial/multicultural church.

During his tenure as a local church pastor, Black also was active in Association and Conference life, serving on several committees and holding a number of elected offices.  He served on the Ordination and Standing Committee and the Committee on Church in the Metropolitan Community of the New York Metropolitan Association. He was chairperson of the New York Conference Commission on Mission Priorities and he served as moderator of the Conference.

Ecumenical commitment, concern for equal justice, African-American empowerment, and community improvement have shaped Black's ministry in the church and in the communities in which he has lived. This has resulted in his work with organizations such as the Nassau Coalition for Safety and Justice, The Long Island Interracial Alliance for a Common Future, and the Amistad Cultural Center of Long Island, which he co-founded.  While living in Ohio, he has been an active member of Caring Communities of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Partnership 2000 of the Shaker Public schools.

Rev. Black is maried to Patricia Williams-Black. They have one daugher, Makeda Black, who resides in Hyattsville, Maryland.

The Associate General Minister is Edith A. Guffey. Before joining the national setting of the church in 1991, Edith was an administrator at the University of Kansas. She is a graduate of Baker University, Baldwin, Kan., and holds a master's degree from the University of Kansas. An African American, Edith is a member of Federated UCC in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. In the new structure of the UCC's national setting, the Associate General Minister is responsible for administration of the Office of General Ministries.

The Rev. Stephen L. Sterner is Acting Executive Minister of Local Church Ministries. Local Church Ministries encourages and supports UCC congregations in the fulfillment of God's mission. Steve most recently served as interim senior minister of Claremont United Church of Christ in Claremont, California. Steve has served in old, historic congregations, been the pastor of a new church start and has served as secretary for church development on the Board of Homeland Ministries. He spent 16 years in pastoral ministry as senior minister at Central Congregational UCC in Atlanta, Ga., and senior minister at the Church of the Beatitudes in Phoenix, Ariz. He was Interim Conference Minister for the UCC's Massachusetts Conference. Steve's parish ministry has included large, multi-staff congregations that contained complex organizational structures and sizable mission agencies. His continuing education work shows a special emphasis on counseling congregations, leading organizations through change, and ongoing theological and biblical reflection. Steve believes the United Church of Christ is at both a critical and exciting moment in its history. LCM has as its charge the ministry of supporting and strengthening local congregations in their transforming work.  He is excited and pleased to be a part of this ministry since he has a real passion for the local church. He sees the role of LCM as building relationships with congregations and that the work of empowering and equipping lay and ordained leaders is an extremely important mission of Local Church Ministries.

"Greetings in the name of the Still Speaking God!  I am honored to be serving in a position that has as a significant part of its charge the responsibility of being an advocate for local churches in the National Setting of the United Church of Christ. It is a responsibility I assume with both honor and humility. I invite local church pastors and leaders to offer prayers, counsel, and support as we engage in our important ministries in witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Let us pray for and with each other, work for and with each other, and learn to celebrate one another's ministries as if they were our own."  - Stephen Sterner

The Rev. M. Linda Jaramillo is executive minister of the UCC's Justice and Witness Ministries, responsible for the church's work on human rights and social, racial and economic justice. Jaramillo has been active in various UCC settings; as a member of the Commission for Racial Justice and the board of the Coordinating Center for Women; as a member and moderator of Ainsworth UCC in Portland, Ore.; as moderator, vice-moderator, treasurer and search committee chair in the Central Pacific Conference; as a member and committee chair of the Executive Council; and as assistant moderator of General Synod. In 2002, she was a UCC delegate to the World Council of Churches Assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1998. She is a former president and vice-president of the Council for Hispanic Ministries and former co-convener of the Council of Racial and Ethnic Ministries.

Jaramillo has over 30 years of management experience working with state, county, and federally funded programs in Oregon, including Head Start, migrant services, child welfare, violence prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, and adult community-based education. She received a B.S. in Business Administration from Portland (Ore.) State University and a Master of Divinity degree from UCC-related Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she is the first Hispanic to serve as a member of the Collegium.

The Rev. Cally Rogers-Witte is executive minister of the UCC's Wider Church Ministries and co-executive of the UCC/Disciples' Global Ministries.

Rogers-Witte was the UCC's Southwest Conference Minister for 10 years. Prior to that, she was pastor of Community UCC in Raleigh, N.C. for 18 years. In the 1970s, she worked as a regional associate with the former Office for Church Life and Leadership. Rogers-Witte has attended two international assemblies of the World Council of Churches, in Australia (1991) and Zimbabwe (1998). In the early 1970s, she was the director of Christian education at the American Church in Paris, France.

Rogers-Witte has chaired the UCC Insurance Board and served as a trustee of UCC-related Elon University in North Carolina. She is also a past president of the New Mexico Council of Churches and the North Carolina Council of Churches, and a former board member of the National Council of Churches.

A graduate of Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, she received an M.A. in religion from Yale Divinity School and the Master of Divinity degree from UCC-related Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.