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The Rev. Dr. Dorothy A. White is the fourth of five children born to Oscar and Dorothy White of
Knoxville, Tennessee. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville. She went on to earn a Master of Arts in Theology from Oral Roberts
University. In 1995 Dorothy was ordained as a Baptist minister and later served as the
Assistant Pastor at First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries, Virginia.
Dorothy moved to Richmond in 2001 to work on a Doctor of Ministry degree at the Samuel
Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. She graduated in 2005. Upon
moving to Richmond Dorothy began serving at St. Catherine’s (Episcopal) School. She served
at STC from 2001 until the summer of 2019.

Dorothy was ordained to the priesthood in 2015. She served at historic St. John’s Church
where she worked with members to develop and implement a program called, “Conversations in
Black and White.” Through these workshops and other efforts Dorothy worked with parishes
seeking to make impactful changes toward Racial Healing and Inclusion.

In July 2022 Dorothy relocated to Minneapolis to serve as the Interim Chaplain and Religion Department Chair at Breck School in Golden Valley. Upon the completion of her service she embraced the call to serve as interim rector at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Germantown, Tennessee. dwhite@stgeorgesgermantown.org (901)-754-7282 x105

Born in Greenville, South Carolina, STEPHEN KARR is a compelling interpreter of opera and orchestralworks, and is in demand as a conductor and keyboardist. He is in his second season as opera music
director at the University of Memphis, where he led the inaugural production in the new Scheidt
Family Performing Arts Center in Spring 2023, Puccini’s La bohème. He also debuted with Opera
Memphis and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra with Zach Redler’s The Falling and the Rising in his first
season in Memphis.

Before moving to Memphis, he was Associate Conductor and Artistic Administrator at Long Beach
Opera from 2018-2021, where he was scheduled to conduct Robert X. Rodriguez’s Frida and Peter
Maxwell Davies’s The Lighthouse, both productions which were cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conducting Frida, he made his debut with Anchorage Opera in Alaska in February 2020. In 2011, he
co-founded Pacific Opera Project, for which he was music director until 2016. With POP, he led
productions of Trouble in Tahiti, Così fan tutte, The Turn of the Screw, La Calisto (LA premiere), 
Ariadne auf Naxos and The Rake’s Progress (LA professional premiere), among others. The Las Angeles
Times praised his performance of the Stravinsky as having kept orchestra, cast and chorus on
“well-articulated rhythmic track.” He has worked as the music director for the OPERA Iowa tour, and
been on music staff with the Glimmerglass Festival, Opera New Jersey and Palm Beach Opera.

As a parish musician, Stephen has served parishes around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles,
including positions as Organist/Choirmaster at St. Clement’s-by-the-Sea in San Clemente and St. Mark’s
church in Glendale (interim), as well as organist and associate conductor positions at St. Wilfrid of
York in Huntington Beach, St. Thomas the Apostle in Hollywood, and the parish of St. Athanasius at
St. Paul Commons in Echo Park. Over the 2022-23 academic season, he was a regular guest organist
at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, where he played for Christmas, Holy Week and Easter.
As a concert organist, he has performed solo recitals at venues in Atlanta (Cathedral of St. Philip),
Los Angeles (First Congregational Church), Philadelphia (Episcopal Cathedral), Princeton (Princeton
University Chapel) and San Diego (All Souls’ Episcopal Church Point Loma).

Karr has taught at Chapman University, Michigan State University, USC and UCLA. His schooling
includes degrees in organ (Mercer University and Westminster Choir College) and orchestral conducting
(UCLA). He lives in Midtown Memphis with his wife, Hannah Waldman, and their children Leonard and
Eleanor.

Karrie LaCroix was born Illinois and attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, earning her Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Nursing with a minor in family studies. She and her husband, Jason, moved to Germantown in 2004, and are the proud parents of twins, May and Tucker with us here on Earth and Emma who gained her wings into heaven at the age of nine. Their household also includes 3 dogs who have found them along the way, and an adorable bunny. In her free time, Karrie enjoys cooking, exercising and doing anything outdoors. As a former registered nurse with 18 years of clinical experience, she has spent a great deal of time working with patients and their families. She has enjoyed working with children as a Girl Scout Leader, through volunteering at local schools and through teaching Sunday School/Children’s Chapel/VBS at Church of the Holy Apostles. Additionally, her experience as a special needs mother has given her a unique perspective of life and faith that she looks forward to sharing with all of us here at St. George’s.

You can email Karrie at: karrie@stgeorgesgermantown.org