Rev. Jihyun Oh
Louisville, Kentucky
Rev. Jihyun Oh is the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and was elected and installed at the 226th General Assembly in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2024. Additionally, she serves as Executive Director of the Interim Unified Agency, a position she has held since October 2024. She is the first Korean American to serve in the denomination’s highest office, only the second woman, and the first woman of color elected to lead the PC(USA) in its more than 300-year history in the U.S.
For five years, she served as director of Mid Council Ministries in the Office of the General Assembly and was manager of call process support before that. Ordained as a teaching elder by the Presbytery of Tropical Florida on behalf of the Presbytery of Chicago, Oh has served in several pastoral roles as well as hospital chaplain. She is currently a member of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta.
Oh earned undergraduate degrees in Biology and German Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Finance from Florida International University, and a Master of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary.