Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Conservative Resurgence: Russell Dilday's Dismissal and Ken Hemphill’s Election === In March 1994, the seminary experienced a sudden change in leadership with the dismissal of the seminary's sixth president, [[Russell H. Dilday]], during the [[Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence]]. On March 9, 1994, the board of trustees voted 26 to 7 to dismiss Dilday after 16 years as seminary president.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/us/baptists-dismiss-seminary-head-in-surprise-move.html|title= Baptists Dismiss Seminary Head in Surprise Move|last= Steinfels|first=Peter|date= March 11, 1994|work=New York Times}}</ref> Dilday was called to a board meeting where he was removed without warning and his office was locked while he was still at the meeting, preventing his removal of personal effects.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Fletcher | first = Jesse|title=Russell Dilday |date=24 November 1999|newspaper= Baptist Standard|url= http://assets.baptiststandard.com/archived/1999/11_24/pages/dilday.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407090325/http://assets.baptiststandard.com/archived/1999/11_24/pages/dilday.html |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |url-status= live}}</ref> The [[Associated Press]] reported that the newly elected trustee chairman stated that the "institution needed new direction for the 21st century." Students gathered in front of the president's home in protest and support for Dilday.<ref name=":0" /> The election of Kenneth S. Hemphill as the seminary's seventh president followed, and he served the seminary from 1994 to 2003.<ref name="Hawkins">Hawkins, Merrill M., Jr. (2007) "Columns: Glimpses of a Seminary Under Assault" ''Baptist History and Heritage'' 42(1): pp. 117–18</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page