Sonia Hicks

Sonia Hicks is a British Methodist minister who was elected to serve as President of the Methodist Conference from June 2021 to June 2022.

Personal life and education She worked as a bank clerk for four years before training at The Queen's College (now the Queen's Foundation), Birmingham. Hicks is married to Conrad Hicks, a Methodist minister. They have three children.

Ministry After Hicks was ordained (received into full connexion), she and her husband both were in the High Wycombe circuit for two years and then the Watford circuit for the following by four years.

In her ministry she celebrates diversity and is opposed to all forms of injustice. In her inaugural address in June 2021, she spoke about how the church should respond to racism and social division, both within the church and in wider society and how these tensions should be acknowledged as well as countered.

Hicks presided over the 2023 Methodist Conference. This responsibility fell upon her as Graham Thompson, the President of the Conference, decided not to attend due to an ongoing investigation related to safeguarding failings.