Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church

Rev. Nixon

Rev. Nixon

Rev. Nixon

Rev. Victor H. Nixon, senior pastor, was born in Lavaca, Arkansas, June 26, 1940, the son of Harmon and Louise Rankin Nixon.  He graduated from Lavaca High School in 1958, from Hendrix College with a B.A. in History and Political Science, 1962, and received a Master of Divinity degree with Honors from Perkins School of Theology, S.M.U., in 1967.  He was selected as a Perkins Distinguished Alumnus in 1989. 

Rev. Nixon is married to the former Frances (Freddie) Henley of McGehee, Arkansas.  They have one daughter, Aubrey Nixon, of Little Rock with Bank of the Ozarks. 

He was ordained deacon and received into Probationary Membership in the North Arkansas Conference of The United Methodist Church in 1965, and ordained elder and received into Full Membership in 1967. 

Churches served include: Associate Pastor, Central United Methodist Church, Fayetteville, 1967-72; First United Methodist Church, Berryville, 1972-75; Huntington Avenue United Methodist Church, Jonesboro, 1975-77; Associate Director, North Arkansas Conference Council on Ministries, 1977-1979; Arkansas Area Director, Cooperative Parish Ministries, 1979-83; Senior Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Batesville, 1983-87; Senior Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Russellville, 1987-92; Senior Pastor, Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, Little Rock, 1992-present.

He has served on a number of conference boards and agencies, including Board of Ordained Ministry, Committee on Nominations and Personnel, Worship, Interfaith Hunger Task Force, Conference on Leadership in Ministry, Board of Pensions, and Council on Finance and Administration. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Hendrix College and the board of the American Red Cross, Ozarks Region.

He has taught courses in a number of Schools of Christian Mission, and served on the faculty of the Course of Study School at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, where he taught Old Testament interpretation.  He has been a Field Supervisor for five Perkins Interns and served as a mentor in the Perkins Mentors Program.

He was a reserve delegate to the South Central Jurisdiction Conference in 1976 and a delegate to the World Methodist Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, in 1986; July 2001 he served at the 18th World Methodist Conference in England and at Seoul, Korea in July 2006.  The summer of 1988 he participated in a study tour on “Peace, Development and Disarmament” in the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic.  He was elected as a delegate to the 1992 and 2000 South Central Jurisdiction Conference and as a reserve delegate to the 1992 and 2000 General Conference.

He is a member of Franklin Lodge #9 of Free and Accepted Masons, Clarksville, Ark, a 32nd degree Mason and member of Consistory, Valley of Little Rock, and received the honorary 33rd degree in Masonry in 2009. 

His hobbies include reading, writing, languages, hiking, fishing, and travel.