PHOENIX (BP) — Morris H. Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, joined Chief Justice William Reinquist and Sam Moore, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, in receiving an honorary doctorate from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix along with eight other notable leaders.

A native of Kosciusko, Miss., Chapman is a graduate of Mississippi College. He earned the master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Southwestern Seminary and has received two other honorary doctorates – one from Mississippi College and the other from Southwest Baptist University in Missouri.

Rehnquist, a Lutheran, practiced law in Phoenix from 1953-69.