- from Rockford Lutheran School News Release -

The Reverend Carol S. Gates has been selected as Executive Director for Rockford Lutheran School and will begin her duties on October 14, 2008. Rockford Lutheran School is comprised of two campuses - the Academy (pre-K through grade 6) and the Junior/Senior High School (grades 7 – 12). Its staff of over 150 persons provides a college preparatory education in a Christian environment for more than 1,000 students.

Pastor Gates formerly served as pastor of Salem Lutheran Church in Sandwich, Illinois and as a part-time Assistant to Bishop Gary Wollersheim, Northern Illinois Synod – ELCA. Prior to her work in Sandwich, she served as Associate Pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Rockford.

Pr. Gates holds a B.A. in English from Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri and the Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She has held administrative positions in domestic and international businesses as well as Coordinator of Religious Education for a K-12th grade church-related school system in the Chicago area.

Pastor Gates and her husband Robert have three grown children, Robert (Lisa), Amy (Gines Padraza), and Johathan.

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