Elaine Gehrmann

Biography

​Rev. Elaine Gehrmann has served as co-minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula in Carmel, CA for the past 10 years.  She has previously been co-minister of two Unitarian Universalist churches for five years each, in Watertown, NY, and in Champaign-Urbana, IL. She has also worked as a family and individual counselor, an Assistant Public Defender and a Legal Aid attorney, and an Executive Director of a non-profit organization serving senior citizens and adoptive families of foster children.

Rev. Gehrmann received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 and a Master of Divinity from the Starr King School for the Ministry in 1989.  She later earned a Master’s in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois College of Education (focusing on Critical Race Theory), and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law. She was granted Ministerial Fellowship in the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1991 and was a member of the Illinois State Bar. She was a member of the Urbana School District Board of Education for 6 years. She and her partner Axel have two young adult children.