Mimi S. Jones is a native of Savannah and attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.  She also received a Education for Ministry certificate from The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.  She is married to Jack M. Jones, Jr., and they have three grown children and nine grandchildren.  Mimi has been a member of Christ Church since 1960 and has served on the altar guild, the vestry, the ECW board, and the Emmaus House committee.  Read More

Margaret Miller was born in Mobile, Alabama, and moved to Savannah after marrying Jerry Miller, an architect.  Originally a Roman Catholic, Margaret began attending Christ Church in 1989.  She later joined St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Skidaway Island, where she was formally received as an Episcopalian in 1992.  While at St. Peter’s, she served as senior warden, flower guild chair, altar guild chair, and antiques show chair.  Read More

Montie Acuff, a lifelong Episcopalian, was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is an alumnus of Agnes Scott College.  Montie moved to Savannah in 1978.  She is married to D. Stephen Acuff, D.D.S., with whom she has two grown sons.  Together, the Acuffs started Project Smile, a dental mission in Belize which has treated over 8,500 children since 1992.  Montie is a past board member for the Bethesda Home for Boys and currently serves as the board president of Interfaith Hospitality Network.

Jane Espy is the chairman of the Episcopal Youth & Children’s Services, as well as the registrar for The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia.  She previously served as a board member for the Historic Savannah Foundation, the Georgia Historical Society, and the Savannah Science Museum. She graduated from the University of Richmond and is married to Carl Espy, III. She is the mother of two children, three stepchildren, and five grandchildren.

Becky Cheatham was born and raised in Sylvester, Georgia, the Peanut Capital of the World.  She joined Christ Church in 1977.  Becky has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in speech pathology from the University of Georgia and currently serves as the Director of Development for the Savannah Country Day School.  Read More

Mills Fleming is a partner with the law firm Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, P.C.  He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Florida. Mills married Dr. Marianne M. Fleming in 1990 at Christ Church.  They have one son, Alexander, who serves as a crucifer at Christ Church.  Mills is lifelong Episcopalian and is the son of an Episcopal priest.  Read More

Kelly Garrett was born in Greensboro, Georgia in 1967 but grew up on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and St. Simons Island. She attended Christ Church, Frederica until she left to attend St. Mary’s, an Episcopal school for girls in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Kelly graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Journalism in 1989 and worked in London for two years for The Prince’s Youth Business Trust.   Read More

T Gongaware grew up in Savannah attending Christ Church with her 4 brothers and sisters.  She received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her training in Internal Medicine from Columbia Presbyterian in New York.  It was there that she met Robert David Gongaware a resident in surgery. They married at Christ Church in 1969 and returned to Savannah in 1972.   After Bob’s death in 1999, T began her career as a volunteer physician.  Read More

Bill Haile is the recently retired Chairman, President & CEO of SunTrust Bank, Georgia.  He is a graduate of The Citadel and the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.  He and his wife, Gigi, have been members of Christ Church for over 35 years and both of their sons, Fitzhugh and Rob, were christened and confirmed at Christ Church.  Bill has previously served three terms on the vestry and in the past was Chairman of the Christ Church Endowment Committee.  Read More

Tom Hollis is a licensed psychologist in private practice at Savannah Psychotherapy Center. He practiced at Tidelands Community Mental Health Center for 16 years when he first moved to Savannah in 1979. He grew up in Laurinburg, North Carolina and received his bachelor’s degree from Catawba College; his master’s degree from the University of Dayton; and his doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee.  He met his wife Betsy while in college, and they have two adult children. Read More

Frank Macgill is the managing partner for Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, P.C. and specializes in corporate, tax and estate planning.  He received his law degree from the University of Georgia and his masters in tax law from New York University.  He and his wife Mary-Margaret have two daughters: Alston, 12, and Isabel, 9, who are acolytes for our church.

Virginia Maxwell was born in Augusta, Georgia, where she was baptized, confirmed, and married in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.  In 1954, Virginia married the Reverend George M. Maxwell, our Rector Emeritus.  That same year she also graduated from Hollins College.  She and Father Maxwell moved to Savannah in 1973, when he became Christ Church’s 39th rector.  Together, they have three grown children (two of whom are Episcopal priests and one who works in real estate) and eight grandchildren.  Read More

Ann Miller was born in Lowville, New York, in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.  She graduated from the University of Rochester in 1959, with a degree in sociology/psychology with a concentration in music at the University’s Eastman School of Music. That year, she married Dr. William Miller and moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where Bill completed medical school and residency at Yale.  During that time, she was a special education teacher in public schools.   Read More

Rosalie Morris grew up in Greenville, South Carolina where she attended the First Presbyterian Church.  After graduating from Converse College with a degree in Political Science, Rosalie completed an Executive Management Program in Charlotte, North Carolina and worked as a department store buyer.  Later she worked on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina when it was first being developed.  Charles and Rosalie were married 40 years ago at the First Presbyterian Church in Hilton Head.  They have two children, Charles Hill Morris, Jr. and Rosalie.  Read More