native of Austin, Texas, she grew up and was educated in Portland, Oregon. She has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and secondary teaching credentials; Certificate in Pastoral Leadership Training, School of Theology and Ministry, Seattle University; Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies, School of Theology and Ministry, Seattle university; Doctor of Ministry, San Francisco Theological Seminary; Doctoral Dissertation on: Sojourner Truth: Reflections on Certain Aspects of the Truth - an Anatomy of Sojourner’s Spiritual Conversion Answering the Question - Are African American Baptist Clergy Women Called to Preach? Licensed (1989) and ordained (1998) by Dr. Samuel B. McKinney at the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle, she is an illustration of the passage that says . . . to whom much is given, much is expected. Hall has lived in King County for more than fifty years; widowed twice, raising two families as a single parent, her three children are now in middle-aged.