Emmett Solomon Endowed Internship Scholarship

Emmett Webster Solomon Jr. will be remembered as a man who made a difference and his caring persona left a lasting impression on those he encountered. He was born on January 2, 1936 in Memphis Texas along Highway 287 and the Fort Worth Denver Railroad He and his wife, Janet Lorilei Solomon, had two sons, Emmett Matthew and John Mark. During his first semester at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he was recruited to Huntsville to do a course of study at the Huntsville Unit in 1964. Chaplain Clyde Johnston supervised his first year of clinical pastoral education (CPE). After one year of CPE he was invited to serve as a chaplain for the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) at the Central Unit in Sugar Land. He continued CPE training for an additional year while serving the inmates and staff at Central. After retirement in 1994, he served for 20 years as Founder and Executive Director of the Restorative Justice Ministries Network (RJMN). That organization published and mailed a prison ministry trade journal for 12 years, which is presently in digital format. The journal was created to network people who do ministry with prisoners, prisoner families, victims of crime, and criminal justice professionals. He received many honors for his service including the Gene Stallings Service Award, two Volunteer of the Year Governor Awards, and Chaplain of the Year from both the Salvation Army and the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, and it is in his image that this scholarship is being awarded to students.