Kelly, Leontine T. C. (Leontine Turpeau Current)

found: Carter, N.A. Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, c1993:t.p. (Leontine T.C. Kelly) p. 153 (Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly; ordained minister of the United Methodist Church)

found: Wikipedia WWW site, July 3, 2012(Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly; b. Mar. 5, 1920, Washington, D.C., to David D. Turpeau, Sr. and Ila Marshall Turpeau; m. Gloster B. Current (div.), the Rev. Dr. James David Kelly; d. June 28, 2012, Oakland, Calif.; bishop of the United Methodist Church)

found: African American women, 1993:pages 305-306 (Leontine (Turpeau, Current) Kelly; the first woman of African-American descent to be elected to the episcopacy of the United Methodist Church (1983). Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio where she helped organize the NAACP and Urban League chapters. Attended West Virginia State College until her marriage, which ended in divorce 15 years later. After marrying a second time, she returned to school and graduated from Virginia Union in 1960. Became a social studies teacher and a lay speaker in the church. Entered the ordained ministry in 1970 and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. in 1976. Until her retirement in 1988 she served as bishop of the San Francisco area and lived in San Mateo, Calif.)