The Very Reverend Gary R. Hall, Ph.D., became the ninth Dean and President of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in January, 2005. He is also Professor of Anglican Studies.

Prior to coming to Seabury, Dean Hall was rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania for four years.
For the eleven years prior to that he was Senior Associate at All Saints, Pasadena, with particular responsibility for Education, Church Growth, and Incorporation of New Members.

A native Californian, Dean Hall received his A.B. at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his M.Div. with distinction at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He returned to California to study at UCLA where he earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English.

Dean Hall has served parishes in
California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Among his ministries, he has been Chaplain at the Cranbrook Schools in Michigan, Vicar of St. Aidan's Church in Malibu, California, and Member of the Standing Committee and later Sexual Misconduct Officer for the Diocese of Los Angeles.
In Pennsylvania he chaired the Campus Ministry Study Committee, the Diocesan Review Committee, and the Committee on Diocesan Finances.

Dean Hall also has extensive teaching experience as lecturer in Episcopal Polity at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, as yearly lecturer in leadership and ethics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, as long-time lecturer in American Literature at UCLA, and as faculty member at the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont. He was also English Teacher, Director of Studies, and Interim Principal at Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California.