Dr. Richard D. Land is the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, a post he has held since July 2013. Formerly he served as president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States, a post he held from 1988 to 2013, when he stepped down in the wake of his controversial comments about the Trayvon Martin case. He announced his intention to retire effective October 23, 2013, and Russell D. Moore filled the post. He was formerly a host of the nationally syndicated radio program Richard Land Live! from 2002 to 2012. He is the executive editor of The Christian Post. 

January 1st, 1946 in Houston (Age 78)