Dr. Rex M. Horne, Jr. became the 15th president of Ouachita Baptist University on June 1, 2006. Prior to his selection as president by Ouachita's Board of Trustees, he served as pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock for nearly 16 years.
Dr. Horne attended Ouachita and later earned a bachelor's degree from Lyon College (formerly Arkansas College) in Batesville. He also holds a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dr. Horne's other pastoral service experience includes: Crestview Baptist Church in Midland, Texas; Trinity Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; First Baptist Church of Hollis, Oklahoma; Brookwood Baptist Church in Oklahoma City; Western Hills Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana; and Meadow Gardens Chapel of First Baptist Church Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Horne was elected to two terms as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Baptist Health and is a member of the Board of Directors at Parkway Village. He is a former trustee of Ouachita and Lyon College and was a member of the Clinton Presidential Library Study Committee. Dr. Horne served on the Executive Board of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention and was chairman of the Tellers Committee at the 1994 Southern Baptist
Convention in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Horne has authored three books: Potluck Dinners and Other People Parables, Our Conversations and Insights from Kingdom Builders. He was a weekly columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for 10 years, and was the host of Conversations, a live talk show, broadcast weekly on VTN in Little Rock.
Dr. Horne and his wife, Becky, have four adult children and two grandchildren.