{{Short description|American pastor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Clint Pressley | image = Clintpressley2021.webp | term_start = 2010 | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|02|26}} | birth_place = Charlotte, North Carolina | education = Wofford College (BA)<br>New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.) | ordination = Pastor, President of the Southern Baptist Convention (2024{{endash}}present) | religion = Baptist (Southern Baptist Convention) | church = Hickory Grove Baptist Church | spouse = Connie Pressley | children = }}
'''Clint Pressley''' (born February 26, 1969) is an American evangelical pastor who has been the president of the Southern Baptist Convention since being elected in June 2024. He has also served as the senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 2011.<ref name="sbcbio">{{cite web|title=SBC President Clint Pressley|website=Southern Baptist Convention|access-date=August 1, 2025|url=https://www.sbc.net/sbc-president/}}</ref><ref name=ap />
== Early life and education == Pressley was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1969. He attended a church within the Presbyterian Church (USA) with his parents when he was young.<ref name=ap /><ref name=rns>{{cite news|title=North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley elected SBC president|first=Bob|last=Smietana|date=June 12, 2024|website=Religion News Service|access-date=August 1, 2025|url=https://religionnews.com/2024/06/12/north-carolina-pastor-clint-pressley-elected-sbc-president/}}</ref> He attended Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte as a teenager.<ref name=sbcbio /> He graduated from Wofford College with a Bachelor of Arts degree and later received a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary<ref name=sbcbio /> after having first attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.<ref name=ap />
== Career == Pressley pastored two churches in Mississippi before returning to Hickory Grove Baptist Church in 1999 as senior associate pastor of preaching. In 2004, he became senior pastor of the Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. In 2010, Pressley came back to Hickory Grove Baptist Church as co-pastor and was installed as senior pastor in 2011.<ref name=sbcbio />
Pressley served as the first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2014 to 2015. He has also served on the board of trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2015,<ref name=ap>{{cite news|title=After a slew of controversies, the SBC turns to a low-key leader to keep things cool|first=yonat|last=Shimron|date=August 13, 2024|access-date=August 1, 2025|website=Associated Press|url=https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptist-clint-pressley-new-president-66d4b559b28cdfe088bb180bec30d9ac}}</ref> serving as chairman of the board from 2020 to 2022.<ref name=br/>
At the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in June 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Pressley was elected as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention to a one-year term.<ref name=rns /> At the June 2025 annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, Pressley was reelected to another one-year term.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pressley elected to second term as SBC president|website=The Baptist Record|date=June 11, 2025|url=https://thebaptistrecord.org/pressley-leads-slate-of-sbc-officers/}}</ref>
== Personal life == Pressley is married to Connie LaBelle Smith Pressley,<ref>{{cite web|title=Clint Pressley: Council Member, CBMW|website=The Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood|url=https://cbmw.org/profiles/clint-pressley/|access-date=August 1, 2024}}</ref> and they have two adopted sons,<ref name=sbcbio /><ref name=ap /> one of whom died at age 24 in 2023.<ref name=br>{{cite news|title=Baptists grieve unexpected death of NC pastor's son|first=Chad|last=Austin|date=August 20, 2023|access-date=August 1, 2025|newspaper=Biblical Recorder|url=https://www.brnow.org/news/baptists-grieve-unexpected-death-of-nc-pastors-son/}}</ref><ref name=ap />
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{{S-start}} {{succession box | before=Bart Barber | title=President of the Southern Baptist Convention| years=2024–present| after=''Incumbent''}} {{S-end}}
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