Linda McCarty (she/her)

Rev. Linda McCarty has been part of our life at Christ Presbyterian Church for the last three years. She is both an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and an attorney. She is currently working part-time as a chaplain at UW Hospital. From 2007 until 2022, she was president and CEO of Faith in Practice, a non-profit organization that provided volunteer medical, surgical, dental care, and health education in Guatemala. Prior to that, she was the associate director of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago. She spent 15 years as a practicing attorney in the Chicago area before she earned her Master of Divinity Degree from the University of Chicago inn 2004. (Her Juris Doctorate
was from DePaul University in 1988.)

Linda is fluent in Spanish and part of a therapy dog team.