Stassi D. Cramm

Stassi D. Cramm is an American leader in the Community of Christ. Since 2016, Cramm has been the presiding bishop and a counselor in the First Presidency of the church. She has previously been a member of the church's Council of Twelve Apostles and a counselor to the presiding bishop. Cramm is the first woman presiding bishop in the history of the church. Cramm attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the University of Phoenix, Graceland University, and Capella University. She was employed as a flight test engineer for the United States Air Force. In 2005, Cramm became an apostle and a member of the Council of Twelve. On March 1, 2016, she was released as an apostle to become acting presiding bishop of the church. On March 31, 2016, Cramm was appointed as the presiding bishop and a member of the First Presidency. In the First Presidency, Cramm is a counselor to Prophet-President Stephen M. Veazey and succeeded Becky L. Savage. Cramm is the first woman presiding bishop in the history of the church. She is also only the second person in the church to serve concurrently as presiding bishop and as a member of the First Presidency. (L. F. P. Curry served as presiding bishop and as a counselor to Frederick M. Smith in 1938–40.) Cramm's counselors in the presiding bishopric are Steven E. Graffeo and Michele K. McGrath.