Zanne Ness serves as the volunteer chaplain at Ministry on the Margins and as a volunteer at the North Dakota State Penitentiary. She is an oblate at Annunciation Monastery and a spiritual director. Following retirement from a career as a clinical psychologist, she was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2011 and served on the Bishop’s staff from that time until 2019. Her education was completed at West Texas State University and the University of South Dakota as well as seminary courses at Providence Theological School. She is married to Terrance and has three children and four grandchildren.