Law & Legal

Reverend Stephanie Turner began walking with the Lord at the age of 10 when she accepted Him into her life as her personal Savior.  She completed the reading of the Holy Bible from front to back for the first time at the age of 15. After much running and trying to bargain with God, she accepted her calling into Ministry in August of 2000. She was licensed on September 20, 2007 and ordained on June 23, 2019, both by her Pastor, Rev. Dr. Gina M. Stewart.

Stephanie has been married to her high school sweetheart, Sylvester Turner for more than 30 years. They are blessed with an adult son, Joffrey Sr. and an adult daughter, Jamille, son-in-love, Kenny, daughter-in-love, Tangela and 7 beautiful grandchildren.

She is a graduate of Manassas High School, LeMoyne-Owen College and the University of Memphis.  She is employed as a Paralegal II with FedEx Freight and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

God primarily uses Stephanie in the areas of Prayer, Intercession and Encouragement. She is a very active member of Christ Missionary Baptist Church where she has served as an Associate Minister under Rev. Dr. Gina M. Stewart since July of 2002.

Stephanie has a heart for God and a heart and a passion for God's people. 

Rhonda Joy McLean is the President and CEO of RJMLEADS LLC,  a leadership consulting company based in New York City. She is the  former Deputy General Counsel of Time Inc., a global media  company, where she managed one third of the law department for  nearly 20 years and provided legal counsel to over 200 clients, including  the print, digital and social media marketing staff for Time, People, Sports  Illustrated, Fortune, Money, Entertainment Weekly and ESSENCE, among other top brands. 

Prior to joining Time Inc., Ms. McLean was the Deputy Director of the Northeast Region of the Federal  Trade Commission (“FTC”), managing over 50 employees, including attorneys, investigators, law student  interns and support staff, and prosecuting cases against antitrust law and consumer law violators across  the United States. A noted public speaker, she is also the co-author of the best-selling book series  The Little Black Book of Success, written with her longtime colleagues Elaine Meryl Brown and Marsha  Haygood, also former Time Warner executives. Her books and consulting business have taken her  around the country to conduct leadership workshops, board strategic planning retreats and career  advancement seminars. She counts leading law firms, corporate legal departments, law schools, colleges  and universities among her clients. Ms. McLean has been featured in SAVOY, ESSENCE, BLACK  ENTERPRISE, INSIDE COUNSEL, EBONY and BEST LAWYERS magazines.

A graduate of Yale Law School, Attorney McLean has served as chair of the Yale Law School Executive  Committee, (serving over 15,000 alumni), and as a director of the Yale Law School Fund, the fundraising  arm of the school. She co-chaired the committee coordinating her 35th Law School Reunion in 2018.  She is a former board chair of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York, an organization  dedicated to business integrity and customer service, and a past board chair of the New York Women’s  Foundation, which awards over $16 million in grants to small non-profit organizations each year.  Currently, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of Union Theological Seminary (“Union”), where she  is Chair of the Development Committee. Union is one of the oldest non-denominational seminaries in  the world, and has trained a large cadre of social justice champions, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Ms. McLean is also the Immediate Past President of the Greater New Chapter, The Links, Incorporated  (“Links”), the New York affiliate of an international organization of business and professional women of  African descent. The Links are comprised of over 16,000 members worldwide who provide millions of  dollars in scholarships to students each year, and render community services in the areas of the arts,  health and human services, services to youth, national and international trends to underserved  communities across the globe. 

Attorney McLean has received numerous awards for her dedication to excellence in and greater access  to the legal profession, as well as her commitment to public service and philanthropy, particularly with  regard to women’s rights, protecting victims of domestic and family violence and more inclusive access  to leadership opportunities in the public and private sectors. 

In May, 2019, she received the Vision Award from the New York Women’s Foundation, and in August,  2019, she received the Key to the City from her hometown of Smithfield, North Carolina, where she  integrated the public high school in 1965 with two other teenagers. In the Fall of 2019, she delivered  Keynote Addresses for the New York Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in the Law, the New York State Bar  Association’s Corporate Counsel Institute and the Big Apple Cluster of the Links, Incorporated. In the  Fall of 2020, she delivered Virtual Keynote Addresses for public and private enterprises and spoke to law  school, university and college leadership and business management classes/students 

In July, 2020 Ms. McLean was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Transformative Leadership Program  in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University in New York City. In December, 2020, Ms. McLean was  awarded the Constance Baker Motley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Black  Women Attorneys.