Ellen Richardson, a physician who practiced Family Medicine in small towns for 14 years and worked for 10 years in hospice and palliative care, was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2008, and served bi-vocationally in congregations of varying sizes in Georgia and Virginia until her retirement from medicine. Since June 2014, she has served as a full time parish priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. She is a graduate of Episcopal Divinity School and lives in Tifton, Georgia.