Reverend Paul A. Leggett graduated from Syracuse University with honors and holds the M.Div. and Th.M. degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1981 Rev. Leggett was called to return to New Jersey to pastor the church where he had grown up. In addition to his work in the local church he has been a Visiting Lecturer at Vassar College, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and New York Theological Seminary. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor in the Classics and General Humanities Department of Montclair State University. He served as Moderator of the Presbytery of Newark in 1989, 1993 and 2006, and Commissioner to General Assembly in 1989 and 2006. He was also elected Vice-Moderator of the Special Committee to revise the Presbyterian confession, the “Brief Statement of Faith.” He has twice received Outstanding Service Awards from Newark Presbytery. In 1991 he chaired the Ministers’ Committee for the Northern New Jersey Billy Graham Crusade. He has also served as president of the Montclair Rotary Club and the Montclair Clergy Association. In 1984 he received the Margot M. Studer Award for service to community, business and state from Montclair State College. In 1996 he became a Paul Harris Fellow in Rotary International. He is listed in Who’s Who in America.

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