Rev. Brenda Perry Wallace, MDiv., EdD
Reverend Dr. Brenda Perry Wallace is a certified Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Certified
Educator. She has done mission work where she taught ministers at the United Theological College of the
West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. She has served in the parish as an Assistant Pastor of Oakhurst Baptist
Church in Decatur, GA and the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. To preach in the same
pulpit as the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of Dr. Brenda’s highest achievements. Dr.
Wallace is a womanist liberation and prolific educator dedicated to empowering, liberating, and
transforming the lives of ministers and ministry leaders.
In 2021, Dr. Wallace created an online ACPE Center, Clinical Pastoral Education & Orientation,
LLC (CPEO) as a response to an encounter with God on her sick bed. Dr. Wallace is a second career
minister. She worked as an engineer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well
as twenty years as an engineer, project, and product manager with BellSouth now AT&T.  Dr. Wallace
developed an apartment community ministry program and served as the Director of Chaplaincy in the
south Atlanta community known as The Villages of East Lake formerly known as “Little Vietnam. A very
troubled inner-city low-income community that at one time had the highest crime rate in Metro-Atlanta.
She taught CPE at several CPE Centers: the Care & Counseling Center of GA in Decatur, GA; St. Francis
Hospital in Columbus, GA; The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH; Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in
Atlanta, GA; James Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, FL; Chapters Health System, in Tampa, FL; the VA
Medical Center in Jackson, MS; the Atlanta VA Medical Center, in Decatur, GA; and the VA Medical
Center in Oklahoma City, OK.
Rev. Dr. Brenda Perry Wallace was a member of Princeton Seminary’s Pastor-Theologian’s three-
year program from 2004 to 2007. During this time, she developed three award winning papers, ‘A
Womanist Hermeneutic of Romans 1:16’, ‘Re-Traditioning the Church of Jesus Christ,’ and ‘Chaplaincy
Program in The Villages of East Lake: Lifting Up and Supporting the Soul of the Community and Its
People.
Dr. Wallace graduated from Bethune-Cookman College now Bethune-Cookman University with a
degree in Mathematics and Chemistry in Daytona Beach, FL.  She holds a Master of Divinity degree from
Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA where she
graduated with honors. Rev. Brenda also holds a Doctor of Education degree from Walden University in
Minneapolis, MN.
She was ordained as an American Baptist minister in 1998. Her publications include:
“A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Care and the Use of African American Spirituals” in Theologies
From REM’s Women of Color: Racial Ethnic Multicultural Network (Watermark Press 2003)
“The Bitter Sting of Rejection” and “Prayer on All Saints Day” in Bless This Weary World: Prayers
at Oakhurst (Trafford 2003)
“Motherhood Archetype: Mothers of Justice” in Society for Biblical Literature Semeia Studies
(Society of Biblical Literature 2009)
“Perceptions of Live Experiences of Clinical Pastoral Education Students” Dissertation (Walden
University, 2015)
“Clinical Pastoral Education: A Survival Kit” Self-published (2016 & 2 nd Edition 2020)
Rev. Brenda is married to James O. Wallace now in their 52 nd year.  They have two beautiful
daughters, two grandsons, twin granddaughters, and one great granddaughter.