March 3. On this date in 1935, Glenford Eckleton Mitchell was born in Jamaica. From 1968 to 1982 he served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, and from 1982 to 2008 he served as a member of the Universal House of Justice.

 

March 3. On this date in 1935, Glenford Eckleton Mitchell was born in Jamaica. From 1968 to 1982 he served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, and from 1982 to 2008 he served as a member of the Universal House of Justice.

Glenford Mitchell was born in Jamaica on March 3, 1935. From 1962 to 1963 he was assistant editorial director of Maryknoll Publications and executive secretary of the Maryknoll Book Club in New York. He later served as assistant editor of "Africa Report" magazine (1963-67) and as managing editor of "World Order Magazine" (1967-82). He was an instructor in English and journalism at Howard University (1966-67).

In 1967, while serving on the National Teaching Committee for the United States, the National Spiritual Assembly asked Glenford Mitchell to establish the National Youth Office. In 1968 he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. That same year he became its secretary, a post he held until his election to the Universal House of Justice in 1982.

He is married to Bahia (Deloomy) Mitchell, who serves as a Human Resource Manager for the U.S. Department of State and serves as a Permanent Member of the Tahirih Justice Center and a member of the Board of Directors of SolHealth, both of which are described as "Bahá'í-inspired public charity organizations." The Mitchell's have one daughter, Tarissa Mitchell, who currently practices as a pediatrician in Jonesboro, Georgia. She previously served as chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Baha'i Association, where she received her undergraduate degree in 1999, before going on to study medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.