2016 Wesleyan Discipline: 2070–2075

F. General Board of Review

2070. Members. The General Board of Review is the appellate body for those who appeal the decisions of a general judicial committee and the judicatory for those who are subject to General Church jurisdiction (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:365; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1655:37). The General Board of Review shall consist of nine members, five of whom shall be ordained ministers and four of whom shall be lay members who meet the leadership qualifications (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:260–268; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:558) of The Wesleyan Church.

(1) Their term of office shall be for four years. They shall serve from the close of the session of the General Conference at which they are elected until the close of the next session of the General Conference or until their successors are elected and qualified.

(2) A member of the General Board of Review may not at the same time be a member of the General Board.

(3) The General Conference shall elect by majority vote the members of the General Board of Review, from nominations presented by the Committee on Special Nominations. Additional nominations may be made from the floor of the General Conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1580:2; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1590:19).

Members of the General Board of Review shall recuse themselves in the case of conflict of interest. Whenever a member is disqualified, the chair shall appoint an alternate for the hearing of that particular case (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5405), provided that such appointment shall maintain the membership of the Board as five ordained ministers and four lay members who meet the leadership qualifications.

2075. Alternates. The General Conference shall elect, in the same manner described in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2070:3, four ordained ministers and three lay members who meet the leadership qualifications (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:260–268; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:558) to serve as alternate members of the General Board of Review, with the same qualifications (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2070:2) and term of office (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2070:1) as the members (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1590:19). (Duties, powers, and procedures of the General Board of Review are located in The General Board Policy for Church Discipline and Ministerial Restoration.)