Our Leadership

The Davenant Board provides the strategic and fiduciary stewardship that sustains the Institute’s mission to renew Christian wisdom for the contemporary Church.

Board of Directors

Ryan Elliott

Ryan Elliott

Ryan Elliott is the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) for DC-based Andrew Morgan Consulting, a veteran-owned government management consulting firm. Throughout his 26-year career, he has held numerous leadership positions with firms such as PwC, GovCIO, and ManTech Digital. His executive responsibilities have included mergers & acquisitions, corporate planning, go-to-market strategy as well as overall growth, and proposal management. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Bob Jones University and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. He lives in western Loudoun County, VA with his family, is an elder at Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church, and serves on several community and educational boards, including the prestigious George Washington University (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC.

Rick Littlejohn

Rick Littlejohn

Rick Littlejohn holds a B.A. Cum Laude from Princeton University, and co-founded the Davenant Institute in 2013. He has been vitally interested in Christian ethics and public policy since studying under the late Paul Ramsey. After spending the first portion of his career in the supermarket industry, he has been involved in real estate management and financial fields since the late 1990s. He is currently employed as a financial consultant with Thrivent Financial. He serves on the founding vestry of Christ the King Anglican Church of Moscow, Idaho, and spends as much time as possible reading and enjoying his 13 grandchildren.

Ben Miller

Ben Miller

Ben Miller grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York. In 1999, he received his juris doctor degree from Oak Brook College of Law, and was subsequently admitted to the California bar. Thereafter, he attended Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, receiving his master of divinity degree in 2005. He served as associate pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, New York, from December 2005 to September 2011. In September 2011, he became the organizing pastor of Trinity Church, in Syosset, New York, where he still serves. He and his wife Sarah have been blessed with four children, Katie, Andrew, Kenton, and Brieyn.

Scott Pryor

Scott Pryor

Board Chair

Scott Pryor teaches at Campbell University School of Law in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. For 17 before joining the faculty at Campbell, he taught at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach. He has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He also received an M.A. in theological studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. For 15 years, his legal practice emphasized creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, and he represented secured creditors, unsecured creditors committees, and debtors in bankruptcy. He has taught courses in Contracts, International Business Transactions, Sales, Secured Transactions, Comparative Law, and Bankruptcy. He also regularly leads a seminar on Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought. Scott has spoken at legal conferences on developments in the law and at symposia on legal theory and history and has been published in the areas of secured transactions and bankruptcy law, the history of the law of contracts, as well as law and religion. Scott returns to the Davenant board as a well-known former board member and chair.

Myron Steeves

Myron Steeves

Myron Steeves is an attorney practicing in Newport Beach, California. His practice serves nonprofit organizations, religious organizations, and churches by offering sound legal guidance from a faith-based perspective. He is an active member of the nonprofit committees of both the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. A graduate of Biola University and Georgetown University Law Center, Myron has also served as a Christian missionary to the Middle East. He is the Dean Emeritus at Trinity Law School, a Christian law school devoted to championing a biblical view of human law and government. He frequently speaks on a wide array of issues involving Christianity and the law, including the integration of faith and law, legal careers as tools for Christian ministry, law and public policy, and law and theology.

Carl Trueman

Carl Trueman

Dr. Carl Trueman serves as Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, PA, and is widely respected as a scholar, teacher, and writer. His 2020 book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of religious scholarship in recent decades. He has authored numerous other books including Crisis of Confidence, To Change All Worlds, The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, and John Owen: Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man. He is also a Contributing Editor at First Things and co-host of the popular Mortification of Spin podcast.

Jerry Timmis

Jerry Timmis

Mr. Jerry Timmis is a longstanding technology sales and development professional with leadership roles that span start-up organizations to multinational software firms, including Oracle Corporation and Salesforce, Inc. Jerry received his education at Michigan State University, and is currently enrolled in the MA in Theological Studies at Westminster Theological Seminary. At Westminster, Jerry is on the Senior Team, who is responsible for constituent engagement, stewardship and financial sustainability.

Jerry has been blessed to be a husband of thirty-six years, the father of six married children and eleven grandchildren. He is an ordained Ruling Elder (OPC), and currently a member of the Presbyterian Church of America. Jerry currently serves on the boards of The Detroit Project, a PCA church-planting initiative, and Cloud 9, a supply chain software company.