David S. Dockery (PhD, University of Texas system) serves as president of the International Alliance for Christian Education and Distinguished Professor of Theology at Southwestern Seminary, where he also serves as editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology. He previously served as president of Union University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books and has contributed to about 70 others. He and his wife Lanese have three married sons and eight grandchildren.