 Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. graduated cum laude from Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas and holds two graduate degrees from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University where he also served as Adjunct Professor of Preaching for 24 years.Known as much for his community activism as his preaching and teaching, Holmes was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from 1968–1972, while he also served as a United Methodist District Superintendent.In 2001, he was recognized as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s “Invisible Giants” in the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama.