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Will L. Herzfeld, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Oakland, California since 1973, was the first African-American bishop to head a Lutheran denomination in the United States. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Herzfeld was enrolled in Lutheran schools beginning at the elementary level and attended the Alabama Lutheran Academy in Selma and graduated with an Associate degree in Arts in 1957 from Immanuel Lutheran College of the Missouri Synod in Greensboro, North Carolina. He further pursued his education to obtain a Masters of Divinity in 1961 at Immanuel Lutheran Seminary in Greensboro. Twenty years later, while combining duties as pastor, professor and social activist, he found time to obtain a Doctorate of Divinity from the Center for Urban Black Studies, Berkeley, California in 1984.

Herzfeld was a pastor at the Christ Lutheran Church in the Tuscaloosa chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference when he became involved in the 1964 Tuscaloosa boycott of downtown businesses. In the 1970's, he served as director of the National Conference of Black Churchmen and was on the Board of Directors of the Black Theology Project.

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