WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) - Southeastern Seminary's presidential search committee will recommend to the board of trustees the election of Daniel L. Akin as the seminary's sixth president.

The board will meet in special session on Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. at the school's Wake Forest, N.C., campus to vote on Akin.

Akin, 46, is currently the vice president for academic administration and dean of the school of theology at Southern Seminary. He has connections to Southeastern, as he was professor of theology, dean of students and vice president for student services at Southeastern from 1992-96.

Akin holds a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Criswell College in Dallas.

Akin has pastored churches in Florida, Alabama and Virginia and has ministered in Australia, Thailand and to the Papago Indians. He was New Testament editor of The Holy Bible Baptist Study Edition by Thomas Nelson, and author of the volume on the Epistles of John for the New American Commentary series.

In 1996, Christianity Today named Akin as one of 50 emerging Christian leaders under the age of 40. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Southern Baptist Historical Society, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society.

Akin and his wife, Charlotte, have been married for 25 years. They have four children: twins Daniel and Jonathan, 22; Paul, 20; and Timothy, 18.