Addie J. Butler
Board of Directors
Dr. Addie Butler, Philadelphia, PA, has been a member of the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans board of directors and its predecessor since January 1999. Dr. Butler serves as a member of the Audit and Governance Committees of the board.
Butler served as the assistant to the vice president for academic affairs, Community College of Philadelphia until 2007. In this role she helped oversee instructional and academic issues for the college's 40,000 students. She served in various administrative capacities at the college since 1979. Butler has twice received the Community College of Philadelphia's Leadership Award.
A native of Philadelphia, Butler earned a B.S. degree from Howard University, an M.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University, State College, an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, she received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Muhlenberg College, an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Susquehanna University and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Wagner College.
Butler has served as vice president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and serves on the board of trustees of Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
Formerly, Butler was vice president of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the ELCA, member and secretary of the board of trustees of Lutheran Social Mission Society, and president of the African-American Lutheran Association, Philadelphia Chapter.
Butler is a member of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Philadelphia, where she is chair of the music and worship committee, facilitator of adult education programs, and chair of the stewardship committee.
