Glenford Mitchell
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Glenford Eckleton Mitchell (b. March 3, 1935) was a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, from 1982 to 2008.
Glenford Mitchell was born in Jamaica, in the West Indies. From 1962 to 1963 he was assistant editorial director of Maryknoll Publications and executive secretary of the Maryknoll Book Club in New York. He later served as assistant editor of "Africa Report" magazine (1963-67) and as managing editor of "World Order Magazine"(1967-82). He was an instructor in English and journalism at Howard University (1966-67).
In 1968 Mr. Mitchell was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. That same year he became its secretary, a post he held until his election to the Universal House of Justice in 1982.
[edit] Education
Mr. Mitchell received a BA Bus Ed from Shaw University (1960), a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University (1962) and a Lit.D. (hon) from the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois (1980).
