Stephen Reeves, director of public policy and counsel for the Texas Baptist Life Commission, has been named associate coordinator of advocacy and partnership for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Stephen ReevesAn attorney, Reeves will focus on collaboration with Fellowship partners and advocacy in the public square and serve on the CBF leadership team.
CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter, who worked with Reeves in her former role as executive director of the ethics and public policy division of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, said CBF advocacy efforts will focus on consensus related to issues already being addressed through the organization’s missions and ministries.
Reeves, who grew up near Austin, is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin and Texas Tech University Law School in Lubbock. He previously worked with the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and as youth minister at Ravensworth Baptist Church in Annandale, Va.
Paynter announced Reeve’s hiring during a Sept. 12-13 meeting of the CBF Governing Board.
“Stephen will be missed by Texas Baptists, the Christian Life Commission and all of those who know him personally or relate to him professionally,” said Ferrell Foster, interim director of the CLC.
“He has been a consistent voice of integrity on key public policy issues in Austin, and this is recognized by Baptists and non-Baptists alike. Stephen has had an especially profound impact in efforts to properly regulate the payday and car title loan industry.”
Reeves is a deacon and Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church of Austin. He is married to Deborah Gaddis Reeves of Boiling Springs, N.C., an ordained minister and CBF-endorsed chaplain for Hospice Austin.
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