Mercer University will confer bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to more than 2,300 students in five commencements during May in Macon and Atlanta.
Commencement speakers will include former Mercer trustee and First Baptist Church of Columbus pastor Dr. Jimmy Elder for the School of Medicine; Georgia Legal Services Program Deputy Director Tomieka R. Daniel for Mercer Law School; Board of Trustees Chairman Thad Warren III in Atlanta and Macon; and graduating senior Abdulraheem Kaimari in Macon.
The Atlanta and Macon ceremonies are ticketed events. Livestream coverage of all ceremonies will be available at mercer.edu/commencement.
The School of Medicine will hold its ceremony on Saturday, May 6, at 2 p.m. in Hawkins Arena inside the University Center.
Dr. Jimmy Elder will deliver his address to 210 candidates for degrees from School of Medicine campuses in Macon, Savannah and Columbus.
Dr. Elder has lived in Georgia all of his life. Born in the Atlanta area, he was an honor graduate at Rockdale County High School and magna cum laude graduate of Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He completed post-graduate work earning a Master of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary.
For more than 19 years, Dr. Elder has served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Columbus. He previously pastored churches in Gwinnett County, Moultrie and Thomson. He recently completed his 20th year on the Mercer Board of Trustees.
Dr. Elder, who was closely involved in the founding of the Columbus campus of the School of Medicine, served as chair of the Board of Trustees of St. Francis/Emory Healthcare in Columbus. He is currently vice chair of the St. Francis/Emory Healthcare Board, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pastoral Institute, the YMCA Board of Directors, and the Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley.
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