The Rev. Lebbie Lee Ligon is the elder of two daughters of the late Ethel Lee and the granddaughter of the late Deacon Tommie and Deaconess Lula Jerry Lee and is blessed to have a loving and devoted sister and brother – n – love.

 

A Florence, SC native, she is a 1978 honor graduate of Wilson High School, holds a BS in Mathematics, a Master of Education Degree both from Francis Marion University, plus an MDiv from Hood Theological Seminary. She teaching mathematics in several high schools in Florence and Darlington Counties and at Williams Middle School, Florence. In 1992, she began teaching in higher education at Florence – Darlington Technical College. In 1995, she joined the faculty of Piedmont Technical College as the first African American and first female African American full time faculty member of the Mathematics Department. Rev. Ligon retired from Piedmont Technical College in May 2022 but continues to be an adjunct instructor.

 

She was licensed to preach in 2002 at Weston Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greenwood, SC under the servant leadership of Rev. Willie Neal and Lady Elestine Norman, and ordained an Itinerant Deacon in 2005 and an Itinerant Elder in 2013. Rev. Ligon has been a pastor at the St. John and Grace Chapel Circuit, Mulberry, and Mt. Zion AME churches, all in the Abbeville-Greenwood District of the Piedmont Annual Conference. Her most current appointment is at Pine Grove AME, Plum Branch, S. C.

 

Rev. Ligon is the Registrar and an Instructor for the Piedmont Conference Board of Examiners and the chair of the Committee on Ministerial Orders of the Abbeville - Greenwood District. As a member of Women in Ministry, she has served as the WIM Piedmont Conference Coordinator.

 

Of all the many blessings God has bestowed upon her, she is most grateful to God for salvation through Jesus Christ. Her life’s motto is Philippians 1:21, “for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain”