Kerney, LeRoy G.

LeRoy George Kerney, professional chaplain and clinical pastoral educator, was born in LaPorte City, Iowa in 1923. The son of an Evangelical United Brethren minister, Kerney was ordained an Elder of the Iowa Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1948. He served EUB parishes in Illinois, before joining the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. He received the B.A. from Westmar College in 1945, the B.D. from the Evangelical Theological Seminary in 1947, and the M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1963. He completed clinical pastoral training in the late 1940.

Kerney began his career as a professional chaplain at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1948. From 1949-1955, he was Protestant Chaplain at Manteno State Hospital. In 1955, he became Professor of Pastoral Care at the Texas Medical Center's Institute of Religion in Houston. He remained there until August 1963, when he returned to the Washington, D.C. area as Supervisory Chaplain at the Clinical Center, National Institute of Health. Kerney retired from the Clinical Center in 1988.

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