Tuscaloosa First United Methodist Church today revealed its next senior pastor.

The Rev. Robin Crews Wilson will become senior pastor effective July 1.

Wilson has been serving since July 1, 2024, as executive director of stakeholder relationships for the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship.

A native of Prattville, Alabama, Wilson has a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and a master of divinity degree from Duke University.

An ordained elder in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, Wilson has been pastor of congregations in Mobile, Dothan, Opelika and Phenix City.

She has also served as director of the Healthy Clergy and Congregations Initiative.

She is the author of the 2016 devotional, “God is With Us: An Advent Study Based on the Revised Common Lectionary,” published by Abingdon Press.

Wilson and her husband, Jeff Wilson, have previously served as co-pastors. They have three children, Rebecca, Eleanor and Nolen.

She will succeed the Rev. Clinton Hubbard Jr., who became the first Black pastor of Tuscaloosa First United Methodist Church in 2019. Hubbard will be district superintendent of the East District in the North Alabama Conference, effective July 1.