The Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose, Rector
 The Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose, is the 8th Rector of St. Thomas' Parish, and the first woman to hold that position. She is proud to be a 5th generation Washingtonian and cradle Episcopalian, both of which are increasingly rarities.
Her calling to the priesthood is a second vocation for Nancy Lee, who began her professional life as a teacher, coach, and then university professor.
Nancy Lee's teaching career began with a junior high school position in the Baltimore County school system. She also coached fast pitch softball, field hockey and lacrosse.
After earning an M.S. and then a Ph.D. in Health Sciences, Nancy Lee joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, subsequently moving to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, as professor and department chair of Health Sciences.
During these years she most enjoyed supervising the teaching and research of her graduate students and teaching classes in Human Sexuality and Death and Dying. While at Baylor, Nancy Lee was also very active in her Episcopal parish, St. Paul's; served as the volunteer chaplain to the Canterbury Association, the campus Episcopal student organization at Baylor; became a hospice volunteer; and served as a spiritual director for Cursillo.
Nancy Lee returned to school again as a student at Emory University, where she received a Master of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology. At Emory she was a Dean's Scholar and winner of the John Owen Smith Preaching Award.
After graduation from seminary, Nancy Lee served as pediatric chaplain and CPE resident at UNC Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, NC. She was also the director of a special pediatric grant to assess the spiritual development of chronically and terminally ill children. She describes this year as one of the most challenging and rewarding of her life.
Still not finished with her formal education, following her residency in Chapel Hill, Nancy Lee traveled to Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria to earn a M.A.C.E. degree (Master of Arts in Christian Education).
Nancy Lee was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in June 1998. Having been called to serve as Canon Pastor at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she was ordained an Episcopal Priest there in January 1999.
The Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose also has served as Associate Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia, and Interim Rector, St. John's Episcopal Church in Suffolk, Virginia, before being called as our Rector.
She still misses playing field hockey (her stick decorates the rectory!) and lacrosse, enjoying competitive tennis, jogging and cycling instead. Her artistic talents are exhibited in hand-crafted beaded necklaces and bracelets, and a new easel on her sun porch promises soon to display her painting, just begun. Her loves, outside of parish ministry and her journey with Christ, are her husband Wayne Floyd, their dog Frieda (and assorted cats and birds), and especially her family and friends. Her favorite escapes are long walks at the ocean, reading medical mystery or sci-fi novels, and watching movies.
Tim Hagy, Music Director
Timothy Hagy graduated with honors from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied organ with David Craighead and Russell Saunders, as well as harpsichord with Colin Tilney. After completing a master's degree at the Florida State University, he won a Fulbright scholarship to study at Vienna's Hochschüle für Musik.
Following post-graduate study at Eastman, he served as Music Director for Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania for four years, and as Cathedral Musician at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in Providence, Rhode Island, for eleven years. During his tenure in Providence, Timothy worked closely with Bishop Geralyn Wolf modernizing the music in the cathedral. He helped lead young people of the Diocese on a pilgrimmage to the Taizé Community in Burgundy in the summer of 1998. From 1999 until 2005, Timothy lived in Paris teaching both in the state-run university system, and in private schools. He currently serves as Paris Editor for fashionlines.com.
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