The Rev. Ann Symington is the vocational deacon at All Saints-by-the-Sea. She graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, CA with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Humanities. She received a multiple subjects teaching credential from San Francisco State University. Returning to her hometown of Phoenix, AZ she taught second grade. In 1976 she married Fife Symington. They have five children and three grandchildren. Ann has been a community volunteer in many areas over the past thirty years but her love is working with children. She was ordained in October, 2002, in the Diocese of Arizona and is licensed there and in the Diocese of Los Angeles.