9 Notable alumni of Pacific School of Religion
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Pacific School of Religion is ranked #5,482 in the world and #1,439 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 9 notable alumni from Pacific School of Religion sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Pacific School of Religion won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Georgia Harkness
1891-1974 (aged 83)
theologian
missionary
writer
Georgia Elma Harkness was an American Methodist theologian and philosopher. Harkness has been described as one of the first significant American female theologians and was important in the movement to legalize the ordination of women in American Methodism.
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2. Gilles Poitras
writer
librarian
Gilles Poitras is a Canadian author of books relating to anime and manga. He is a librarian at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. In addition to the books he has authored, Poitras also regularly contributed columns to Newtype USA, a former monthly magazine which covered anime and manga industry and related popular culture.
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3. Christopher Lowson
1953-. (aged 73)
Anglican priest
Christopher Lowson is a British retired Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Lincoln from 2011 to 2021.
4. James Ishmael Ford
1948-. (aged 78)
writer
Christian minister
James Ishmael Ford is an American Zen Buddhist priest and a retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He was born in Oakland, California on July 17, 1948. He earned a BA in psychology from Sonoma State University, as well as an M.Div. and an MA in the Philosophy of Religion, both from the Pacific School of Religion.
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5. Rousas John Rushdoony
1916-2001 (aged 85)
historian
theologian
philosopher
Rousas John Rushdoony was an American Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian. He is credited as being the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement. His followers and critics have argued that his thought exerts considerable influence on the evangelical Christian right.
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6. Diana Becton
1951-. (aged 75)
district attorney
lawyer
judge
Diana Becton, also known as Diana Becton Smith, is a former trial judge and is currently both the first woman and first African American to be elected district attorney in the history of Contra Costa County in California.
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7. David Batstone
1958-. (aged 68)
human rights defender
businessperson
sociologist
theologian
philosopher
David Batstone is an ethics professor at the University of San Francisco and is the founder and president of Not for Sale.
8. Pat Schneider
1934-2020 (aged 86)
poet
writer
Pat Schneider was an American writer, poet, writing teacher and editor.
9. Olive Winchester
1879-1947 (aged 68)
Christian minister
Olive May Winchester was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was in 1912 the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom, the first woman admitted into and graduated from the Bachelor of Divinity course at the University of Glasgow, and the first woman...
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