Byron H. Jackson

Byron H. Jackson, Louise and Perry Dick* Associate Professor of Church Education, has taught at the Seminary since 1986. His areas of teaching include congregational dynamics, faith perspectives, teaching methods, program administration, and education theory. He is especially interested in helping students explore ways people learn through reflection on their everyday experiences.

An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Jackson has served congregations in North Carolina and Kentucky and has also worked on the staff of the General Assembly. He received his bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon College, his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and his Ed.D. from Columbia University.

*Louise H. Dick and her husband Perry J. Dick, were business, community, and religious leaders in Pittsburgh for more than four decades. Mr. Dick founded Trumball Corporation and P.J. Dick Incorporated which together have dominated the Pittsburgh construction market. Subsequent to Mr. Dick's death in 1989, Mrs. Dick assumed the role of chairperson of the boards of the companies, together with her sons-in-law, and continued the companies' impressive growth and performance. Mrs. Dick served two terms on the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Board.