President Of Liberia Worships at Cathedral

Ellen-Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, is greeted at the North Transept Door of the Cathedral by Father Theo-dore Bean, Provost of the Cathedral.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the current President of Liberia, worshipped with the Cathedral of the Incarnation on Sunday, April 13, at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. She is Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected female president. She was elected President in 2005 and is often referred to as the "Iron Lady." Johnson-Sirleaf graduated from the Col-lege of West Africa (Monrovia), a United Methodist high school. She received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1964, an economics diploma from the University of Colorado in 1970, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1971. In November of 2007, President George Bush awarded the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States to Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Mrs. Johnson has said that she wanted to become president so that she could "bring motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency" and help heal the wounds of war. She is commit-ted to the fight against corruption and has been able to withstand the fact that many people in the rural areas, where the domination of males remains, resist having a female leader.