The Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph elected a new leadership council Dec. 30 to six-year terms. The new leaders will take office on July 17.
Sister Amelia Stenger, was elected as congregational leader — the 16th canonically elected leader of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph.
Sister Stenger formerly served as superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Louisville — from 1991 to 1997. Most recently, she served as director of development for the Ursuline Sisters since 2010. She also served as director of the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center; as a teacher and as superintendent for the Diocese of Owensboro.
Sister Kathleen Condry was elected assistant congregational leader. She was formerly an Ursuline Sister of Paola, Kan., prior to the 2008 merger with that community.
She served as superior of the Ursuline Sisters of Paola from 2002 until the merger in 2008. She has served as a teacher, school principal and administrator and as an assistant superintendent for the Archdiocesan Education Office in Kansas City, Kan.
Sister Pam Mueller, who has served as director of campus ministry at Brescia University in Owensboro since 2005, was elected a councilor. She has served as a teacher, a speech-language pathologist, as a professor of speech language pathology at Brescia and as director of vocation ministry.
Sister Judith Nell Riney, who served as a teacher at St. James School in Louisville from 1971 to 1973, was elected a councilor. She has served as director of library services at Brescia College/University since 1987 and has served as a teacher and librarian in other parts of Kentucky and Missouri.
Sister Pat Lynch, also an Ursuline Sister of Paola prior to the 2008 merger was elected a councilor. She served as superior of the Kansas community from 1994 to 2002. Since 2009, she has served as office manager and in campus ministry at universities in Kansas.
There are currently 134 Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph serving in eight states; Washington, D.C.; and in Chile. Eleven sisters serve in the Archdiocese of Louisville.
