Susan "Suzii" Youngblood March

Ms. Susan "Suzii" Youngblood March is policy consultant for the H. E. Butt Foundation in San Antonio. She previously served as CEO of Prosper Waco and CEO of the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. She is ordained to the ministry and was CEO of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. She had an early career as a teacher and administrator serving in Kentucky, Texas and Mississippi. Ms. March was an adjunct faculty in education at Stephen F. Austin University, where she earned an M.Ed. in 1979.

Ms. March currently leads the Mental Health and Resilience Coalition, Kerr County and is on the Board of Advocates for Baylor’s George W. Truett Seminary. She has been a board member for Duke Divinity School at Duke University, the Baptist World Alliance and the T.B. Maston Foundation. In Washington, D.C., she served on the North American Baptist Fellowship and Baptist Joint Committee boards.

Ms. March received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Baylor Line Foundation in 2019 and an honorary doctorate from Dallas Baptist University in 2015. Her other honors include the J.M. Dawson Award for Religious Liberty and the T.B. Maston Award for Christian Ethics. She also received the Distinguished Service to Social Welfare Award from the North American Association of Christians in Social Work.

In addition to making gifts to Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary and the College of Arts & Sciences, she is a member of the Bear Foundation and the Old Main Society. She recently assisted in securing a $1.76 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for Baylor University, the Congregational Collective of San Antonio and Harvard Medical School to use in equipping of congregations to become community hubs for mental health engagement.

March and her husband are members of Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio.