Her husband is a theoretical mathematician, and a man.
Here's her Bio:
Katharine Jefferts Schori, 51, was consecrated the ninth Bishop of Nevada on February 24, 2001. She serves a diocese of some 6,000 members in 35 congregations. Jefferts Schori is the first woman selected as a nominee for Presiding Bishop.
Her service to the wider church includes current membership on the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion; the Board of Trustees, Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California; the CREDO Advisory Board; the House of Bishops peer coaching program; the General Board of Examining Chaplains; the Board for Church Deployment; the House of Bishops' Pastoral Development, Racism, and Planning Committees; the Court for Review of a Trial of a Bishop; the Episcopal visitor team for the Community of the Holy Spirit; and the Bishops of Small Dioceses group.
From 2001-2003 she was a member of the 20/20 Strategy Group, and served as secretary of the House of Bishops Ministry Committee at the 2003 General Convention.
She is the author of "When Conflict and Hope Abound," Vestry Papers (March-April 2005); "Building Bridges/Widening Circles" in Preaching Through Holy Days and Holidays: Sermons that Work XI, Roger Alling and David J. Schlafer, eds. Morehouse (2003); "Multicultural Issues in Preaching" in Preaching Through the Year of Matthew: Sermons That Work X, Roger Alling and David J. Schlafer, eds. Morehouse (2001); and "The Nag" in Preaching Through the Year of Luke: Sermons That Work IX, Roger Alling and David J. Schlafer, eds. Morehouse (2000). Her Maundy Thursday sermon was included in What Makes This Day Different? by David Schlafer, Cowley (1998).
She is an active, instrument-rated pilot with more than 500 hours logged.
At the time of her election as bishop of Nevada, Jefferts Schori was assistant rector at the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan in Corvallis, Oregon, where she also served as pastoral associate, dean of the Good Samaritan School of Theology, and priest-in-charge, El Buen Samaritano, Corvallis. She was ordained deacon and priest in 1994. Prior to ordination, she was a visiting assistant professor at Oregon State University's Department of Religious Studies, a visiting scientist at Oregon State University's Department of Oceanography, and an oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle.
She received a B.S. in biology from Stanford University, 1974; an M.S. in oceanography from Oregon State University, 1977; a Ph.D. from Oregon State University, 1983; an M.Div. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 1994; and a D.D. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2001.
Jefferts Schori was born March 26, 1954, in Pensacola, Florida. She has been married to Richard Miles Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician (topologist), since 1979. They have one child, Katharine Johanna, 24, who is a second lieutenant and pilot in the US Air Force.
ANALYSIS
Like Bishop Alexander, Bishop Jefferts Schori’s tenure has been very brief, calling into question whether her experience is adequate for serious consideration as Presiding Bishop. She has kept a low profile in the media, and she does not appear to have taken hostile action against any orthodox that may be in her diocese. Her voting record at her first General Convention (2003) and subsequent public statements clearly define her as a committed revisionist. She shares other nominees’ understanding of truth as relative and echoes Frank Griswold’s view of pluriform reality and theology based on cultural context. In 2003, her diocesan convention address clearly redefines marriage and underscores that truth is ever evolving.
It also appears that Jefferts Schori had a strong influence on the Report of the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Her emphasis on the fact that local option practice of same-sex blessings is not equal to official authorization by the church is a significant theme in the commission report. Bishop Jefferts Schori also highlights that unity in Christ and membership in the Communion is found not in a common faith but rather in a common baptism. In addition, she stresses the autonomy of provinces, another argument made by the report. Like, other candidates, she is clearly committed to a new consensus in the Communion that embraces progressive, revisionist theology.
No wonder she was able to get elected. That is a really small Diocese.
If you figure 50 % turnout that’s 3000 voters, it would not take much of an activist push to get an unpopular candidate elected.