Jo Anne Lyon (born 1940 in Blackwell, Oklahoma) is the Vice President of

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in Marion, Indiana. Lyon was previously the General Superintendent of the

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. Lyon was elected as the first woman General Superintendent at the June 2008 General Conference. In 2012 she was elected as the only General Superintendent of the denomination. Lyon was ordained as a minister in the Wesleyan Church in 1996 the same year that she founded World Hope International,World Hope International - About Us - Our History
/ref> an organization desiring to alleviate suffering and injustice through education, enterprise and community health. Lyon holds a bachelor's degree in education from the

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, a Masters in Counseling from The

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and further graduate work at St. Louis University in Historical Theology. She has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Northeastern Seminary and United Wesleyan College and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from both

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and

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