Mary Searight — referred to as Lady Mary Searight — is the pastor of Abundant Life Family Worship Church in New Brunswick, N.J. She is married to the church’s bishop and serves with other pastors, both men and women.

Ordain Women is a grassroots organization that works for the ordination of women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. One of its co-founders, Kate Kelly, was excommunicated in June 2014 for her activism. Ordain Women has multiple spokespersons. Contact via the website.

FutureChurch is an organization that advocates for the ordination of women within the Catholic Church. The group is based in Lakewood, Ohio. Deborah Rose-Milavec is its executive director.

Ruth Zlotnick is the head rabbi at Temple Beth Am, a Reform congregation in Seattle, where her assistant rabbi is a man.

MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a Presbyterian pastor and author of several books on religion in the suburbs and women in the church. She serves at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Herndon, Va.

Linda L. Belleville is an adjunct professor of New Testament at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, a Christian liberal arts school associated with Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Mich. She contributed a chapter in support of women in ministry to the book Two Views on Women in Ministry.

Is a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for women’s ordination and leadership in the Catholic Church. It is the U.S. branch of Women’s Ordination Worldwide. Erin Saez Hannah is its executive director.

Christians for Biblical Equality promotes “gift-based” rather than gender-based ministry. In 2007 the organization compiled a report of the positions of most American denominations on women in leadership positions. Mimi Haddad is president. The group is based in Minneapolis.

The Rev. Nancy Wittig was one of the “Philadelphia Eleven,” the first 11 women ordained by the Episcopal Church in 1974. She is now retired but works part time as an assisting minister at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lakewood, Ohio.