Rev. Dr. Suzanne Nichols is the Acting Managing Director of The Chaplaincy Institute. She is an ordained Interfaith minister (ChI 2007) and holds a Masters in Theological Studies from the Pacific School of Religion. A long-time Oklahoman who transplanted to Berkeley to attend seminary, she previously spent 30 years as an attorney doing mostly public health work in state government. She now brings the skills from her wide-ranging experiences—as attorney, program administrator, mother, administrative law judge, executive director, and board member—to the work of administering and growing ChI.