Mittie Jordan currently serves as a trustee and community mission and ministry chair for St. Matthew United Methodist Church in Cleveland, which leads the development of Brookdale Orchard, an urban agricultural enterprise in the congregation’s low-income community. She was the former assistant pastor and director of program ministries and communications for the 6,000-member St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas and assistant pastor and director of the East Side cooperative parish ministries of St. Matthew, Cory, and the former East Glenville United Methodist Church congregations in Cleveland.
She was the founding chair of the National Institute for Restorative Justice and the Rockefeller Park Community Restoration and Development Association. She served as the inaugural director of the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs artist-in-residence program and was the first Black curator (education) at the Dallas Zoo. She served as the Director of the South Dallas Cultural Center and developed and directed the Rockefeller Park Cultural Arts Education Festival for the Division of Urban Forestry in Cleveland, OH.
Mittie boasts a long list of Smith volunteer experience which includes serving as the president of the Black Students’ Alliance; the first Black house president (Cushing House); a member of the Smith Board of Counselors Advisory Committee on Afro-American Studies, 1979–89; a member of admission candidates committees for the Cleveland, Atlanta and Dallas Smith clubs; vice president for programs and the only woman of color to be elected president and subsequent nominating chair of the Smith College Club of Cleveland.
