DAVIDSON – The Rev. Robert Alexander has joined Davidson College Presbyterian Church as its new associate pastor.

The youngest of three children, Alexander is the son of a retired pastor and school principal and spent most of his childhood in Boone.

After graduating from North Carolina State University, he pursued graduate degrees at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Va., and then Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga.

Alexander comes to Davidson from First Presbyterian Church in Union, S.C. He and his wife, Jenny, have three children.