Kit Kleinhans

Dean of Trinity Lutheran Seminary At Capital University

Department

• Trinity Lutheran Seminary

Contact Information

• 614-236-6158
• kkleinhans@capital.edu
• Trinity Lutheran Seminary 225

Biography

The Rev. Dr. Kathryn A. Kleinhans became Dean of Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, on January 1, 2018. Prior to her call to Trinity, she served for 24½ years on the religion faculty of Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, where she held the Mike and Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair in Lutheran Heritage and Mission.

Kleinhans is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Ordained in the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (one of the predecessor bodies of the ELCA) in 1985, her first call was to the Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Atlanta, Georgia. She has served the ELCA at the national level in various capacities: as a member of the Program Committee of the ELCA’s Vocation and Education unit, as chair of the Addressing Social Concerns Review Task Force, as a member of the Stewards of Abundance project focused on reducing seminary student indebtedness, as a member of the Women and Justice Social Statement Task Force, as a member of the Entrance Rite Discernment Group for the ELCA’s Word and Service roster, and as a member of the Theological Education Advisory Committee (TEAC). Kleinhans has also led a series of international seminars on the Reformation and the empowerment of women for ELCA Global Mission.

Both in her academic work and in her church work. she is committed to communicating the relevance and liveliness of the Lutheran theological tradition for today.