Rev. G. Clyde Dodder has served churches in Illinois, Massachusetts, and California.  He was educated as an industrial engineer and an attorney, but settled on the ministry as his true calling.  He received his graduate training for the ministry at the University of Chicago and Boston University. 

 

He was Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church UCC of Palo Alto, California, for twenty-three years before retiring in 2004.  In his retirement, he is now the Interim Pastor of  St. John's United Church of Christ in San Francisco.