In 1982, Denny was elected president of his church's highest governing body, the Methodist Conference.
The Quorum of the Twelve is the second-highest governing body of the church.
General Casas was also a vice president of the Council of State, Cuba's highest governing body.
Two months later, the State Council, China's highest governing body, held a special meeting to consider Mr. Zheng's crimes.
Elijah Abel, a black man, even served in some of the highest governing bodies of the church.
The church's highest governing body is the General Assembly, which is elected by the presbyteries for meetings every two years.
For 20 years he served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church's second-highest governing body.
Cornell gives alumni the opportunity to elect members two each year to its highest governing board of 64, an idea founder Andrew Dickson White wrote into the university bylaws.
In 2014, however, the General Assembly, the church's highest governing body, voted to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages where legal under state law.
This last fact was so alarming that China's highest governing bodies met in Beijing last year to discuss the reasons why Chinese viewers display such high demand for non-Chinese shows.
