| Summary: | Chaplain Sylvia Voncill Tucker was born on June 20, 1945 in Melbourne, Florida. She graduated from Stone High School in 1963, where she was active in the homemakers' club and the social action club. Married to a U.S. Air Force man, she traveled the world, living in Greece, Japan and several U.S. cities from 1963 until 1978 when she became a financial advisor at First Merchants Bank in Richmond, Virginia. Continuing her financial counseling work at John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell, Virginia from 1983 until 1995, she earned her degree in theology at the University of Lynchburg Seminary in 1982. In 1994, she was ordained and licensed as a Baptist minister. In 1985, Tucker was appointed Chaplain of John Randolph Medical Center, becoming the first female African American hospital chaplain in the state of Virginia. In 2000, she was appointed the SCLC National Chaplain, the first woman to hold the post.
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