Before being called to UCCHH, Rev. Hilary McLellan spent most of her career managing Spiritual Care Services and mentoring ministers through their chaplaincy training in Clinical Pastoral Education.  A native of New Orleans, she graduated from Yale University with a degree in Economics and Political Science, where she focused on third world community development projects.  She spent several years working on research and writing projects through Harvard’s Graduate Psychology Department before obtaining her Master of Divinity at Boston University and her ordination in the UCC.