Jann Treadwell is a retired certified Christian educator in the Presbyterian Church (USA). After graduating in 1988 from Perkins School of Theology with a Master of Religious Education, she served at two Presbyterian churches in the Dallas, Texas area over a 22 year period as Director of Christian Education. For six years she was on the denomination’s Educator Certification Council and was selected by the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators as their 2010 Educator of the Year. Youth mission trips have been her passion.
She and husband John have two sons, two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren. Older son John C. is an artist living with his wife Yoko in Santa Fe where he owns and operates a recording studio, Frogville Records. Younger son Brian and his wife Morgan work together on their ranch in west Texas, leading workshops on controlled burns and raising cows, sheep and our grands. In retirement, John’s main activity has been to build and tend to several raised vegetable gardens in their backyard.