The Rev’d Kimberly Sawyer is the Priest in Charge at St John’s Anglican Church Cooks Hill in the Diocese of Newcastle.

Kimberly is the first woman priest in the 160-year-old parish of St John and was ordained in May 2019. Prior to that she was a Deacon for 26 years, her previous ministry was in the Parish of Hunters Hill in the diocese of Sydney. It had been a long and varied ministry in that diocese, as a school chaplain and also within the parish environment.

Kimberly joined the Council at its August 2024 meeting to replace retired Clerical Fellow Rev’d Kate Heath.