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Reverend Clarence S. Wallace's Bio

Reverend Clarence S. Wallace presently serves as pastor of Carmel Presbyterian Church Cincinnati, Ohio in the Presbytery of Cincinnati where he is a senior member.  Reverend Wallace has served this congregation since 1978.  Prior to this pastorate, he served as Senior Therapist and Assistant Director of the Community Alcoholism Program at the Sea Island Clinic, John's Island, South Carolina.

            Reverend Wallace is a 1971 graduate of Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina and a 1974 graduate of Johnson C. Smith Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia.  He received professional certification in counseling from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi. 

Reverend Wallace's civic, community, and denominational involvements have included work as a board member on the City Human Relations Commission, board Trustee for the Cincinnati Zoological and Botanical Society, The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, and the Amos Project.  Reverend Wallace has and continues to be active in the various judicatories of the Presbyterian Church.  He has served on many of the committees of Presbytery, Synod, and General Assembly.  Recently,  Reverend Wallace served on the Mission Committee of Presbytery, as Moderator of the Synod Black Caucus and several General Assembly Special Task Forces.  Reverend Wallace is a member of the Health Leadership Institute; the Center for Closing the Health Gap and The Uptown Consortium, Inc. and the Community Development Task Force. Additionally, he serves as President/CEO of the Avondale Coalition of Churches, a group of four community congregations dedicated to the redevelopment of the Avondale Towncenter, and as a board member and chair of the Avondale/Every Child Succeeds Initiative.

            He has received numerous honors and awards such as The Black Male Coalition's Man of the Year (1998), Greater Cincinnati YMCA's Black Achiever Award (1992), SCLC's Wings of Hope Drug Intervention Program Service Award (1995), and the Wright-Overstreet Award for Community Service presented by the Cincinnati Chapter of the NAACP (1997).    The Cincinnati Chapter of Knoxville College Alumni in 2000 recognized Reverend Wallace for his Community Service.  Reverend Wallace received the Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary Distinguished Alumnus award in 2001.  In 2002, Reverend Wallace was the recipient of the Lily Endowment Grant for Clergy Renewal and served from 2005-2006 as a grant reviewer for the Lily Clergy Renewal Program.  In 2008, Reverend Wallace was the recipient of the United Way Joseph A. Hall Award for Promoting Diversity and the Charles P. Taft Ecumenical Service Award given by the Council of Christian Communions.

            Growing up in the Grier Heights community, Reverend Wallace is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina.  He says that his greatest accomplishment is his marriage to Jacqueline.  They are parents of two daughters, Dr. Angela S. and Allison W.; four granddaughters, Jordan H. O., Madison, Tyler and Nydia S. and one great grandson, John O. III.