In addition to electing North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley for a second term as Southern Baptist Convention president, messengers to the annual meeting June 10–11 in Dallas elected a slate of other leaders.
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1st vice president
Daniel Ritchie, an author and evangelist from North Carolina, was elected first vice president. He received 5,409 votes (87.84%), defeating Larry Helms, pastor of Fort Lawn Baptist Church in Fort Lawn, South Carolina, who received 722 votes (11.72%). A total of 27 votes (0.44%) were disallowed out of 6,158 votes.
2nd vice president
Craig Carlisle, current Alabama Baptist State Convention president and director of missions for Etowah Baptist Convention, was elected second vice president with 3,765 votes (56.46%) out of 6,668 votes. He defeated Tommy Mann, pastor of Highland Terrace Baptist Church in Greenville, Texas, who received 2,057 votes (30.85%), and Christopher Rhodes, pastor of Dover Baptist Temple in Dover, Ohio, who received 806 votes (12.09%). A total of 40 (0.60%) votes were disallowed.
Other offices
Nathan Finn, executive director of the Institute for Transformational Leadership and professor for North Greenville University, was reelected recording secretary, and Don Currence, administrative pastor of First Baptist Church Ozark, Missouri, was reelected registration secretary, both unopposed.
