Lee Devoe came to us from Ottawa, Canada where she was an associate minister of an almost 600 member Unitarian congregation.  Prior to Ottawa she served eight years as the first professional minister at an Idaho Falls UU Fellowship where she was often the lone voice of a liberal religious leader in an ultra-conservative region.  While in Idaho, Lee also served as a bereavement counselor at a hospice center.

Lee grew up in Vermont where most of her family still resides.  She went to Middlebury College where she was first introduced to a liberal education in the study of religion.  Her interests there included meditation and cross cultural comparisons and explorations of religious concepts.  Lee went on to study ministry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, also attending events and classes at Starr King School of Ministry.  She did her ministerial internship at Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, Colorado; then served as a hospital chaplain in Albuquerque, NM, during a one-year residency in Clinical Pastoral Education.

Among Lee's recent experiences include spending a summer working at a camp in Croatia with Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian children.  She has also been involved with Habitat for Humanity, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and UUs for Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Lee has three children; daughter Jamaica (25) is an editor at Inner Traditions, a publishing house in Rochester, Vermont specializing in spirituality texts; son Benjamin (22) lives in Missoula, Montana and is a merchandising supervisor at Best Buy, and daughter Eliza (18) who will attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts this fall.