Meet the ELCA Treasurer

Christina Jackson-Skelton

In 2007 she was elected to serve a second six-year term by the Church Council of the ELCA. Her second term began Feb. 1, 2008. As treasurer, Jackson-Skelton is responsible for proposing financial policy for review and action by the Church Council and provides for the implementation, within such policies, of the financial, accounting, audit, property management, investment, banking and related systems and services for the units of the churchwide organization.

As treasurer, Jackson-Skelton also provides oversight of information technology and building management services for the churchwide organization and serves as president of the Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA.

Prior to her term as ELCA treasurer, Jackson-Skelton served in the ELCA Division for Global Mission. Beginning in 1989, Jackson-Skelton held various positions in the finance department of the Division for Global Mission, ultimately serving as the director for finance for the division from 1996 - 2001. In that role she planned and directed the division's financial policies and budget and provided financial oversight and advice to division staff, mission associations, missionaries and related churches and agencies.

Jackson-Skelton is originally from Madison, Minnesota. She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and Spanish in 1987 from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and a master's in business administration in 1988 from Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management, Glendale, Arizona. Concordia is one of 28 colleges and universities of the ELCA.

Jackson-Skelton is an active member of Joy! Lutheran Church in Gurnee, Illinois. She and her husband, Timothy, are the parents of three children, Benjamin, Anna and Ella.