Rev. Dr. Molly T. Marshall was president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, KS and the first woman to head a Baptist seminary or divinity school in North America. She was also Professor of Theology, Worship, and Spiritual Formation at CBTS.

A graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University, she earned her M.Div. and Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY). She has done additional graduate work at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, Cambridge University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Ordained in the Southern Baptist Convention, her credentials were later affirmed by the American Baptist Churches, USA. She is a member of Prairie Baptist Church, Prairie Village, KS. Previously editor of the Dissertation series of National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR), of which she was president in 2004, Molly now serves on the editorial board of American Baptist Quarterly, and The Review and Expositor.