Biographical Information
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Original Date of Service: 2000
Place of Birth: North Carolina
Present Residence: Lincoln, Nebraska
Ann Brookshire Sherer-Simpson was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the daughter of Homer W. and Annie Jo Haigwood Brookshire. She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, and an associate degree from Mars Hill Junior College (N.C.), a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master's degree from Andover Newton Theological School (Mass.). She received the Emory University Medal in 1999 and the Doctor of Divinity from Central Methodist University, Fayette, Missouri, in 2000 and from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska, in 2009.
Bishop Sherer-Simpson was ordained, in the Texas Conference, as a Deacon in 1976 and as an Elder in 1978. While in the Texas Conference she served pastorates in White Oak, Texarkana, and Houston (Westbury United Methodist Church), and also served as superintendent of the Nacogdoches District. She was elected and consecrated to the Office of Bishop at the 1992 South Central Jurisdictional Conference and assigned to the Missouri Area where she served as resident bishop from 1992 to 2004. She was assigned to the Nebraska Area at the 2004 South Central Jurisdictional Conference where she continues to serve.
Bishop Sherer-Simpson was a delegate to The United Methodist Church's General and Jurisdictional Conference in 1984, 1988, and 1992. She was the chairperson for the Council of Bishops Initiative on Children and Poverty from 2000 to 2004 and served as chairperson of the Committee on World Wide Ministry Through the United Methodist Church from 2004 to 2008. She served on the General Board of Discipleship from 1997-2004 and served on the Book of Worship Committee from 1988 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996 she was president of the Commission on Status and Role of Women and from 2004 to 2008 she was president of the UMC's General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. She is vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Saint Paul School of Theology,and a member of the boards of trustees of the Lydia Patterson Institute, Southern Methodist University and Nebraska Wesleyan University. She has visited churches and shared in mission in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Korea, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Finland, Nicaragua, Estonia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
She is married to Wayne E. Simpson, a retired engineer. Her children continue to live in the Texas area where she served prior to her election to the episcopacy. Robbie, his wife Jennifer and their son Max live in Houston. Ann Marie Trammell, her husband Brian and their son Michael Brookshire Trammell live in Fort Worth.