Joy Carroll

Joy Carroll Wallis is an English Anglican priest who was a vicar in London for 10 years. She was one of the first women ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1994.

In 1997, Carroll married American theologian and writer Jim Wallis. They have two sons, Luke and Jack. Her book, Beneath the Cassock: the Real-life Vicar of Dibley, describes her life as a vicar. She later wrote another autobiography, The Woman Behind the Collar. After moving to the United States, she was licensed as a priest of the Episcopal Church.