Rabbi Samuel Scolnic (1923-2012), born in Ft. Worth, Texas, was a Conservative movement rabbi in the United States. After graduating from Roosevelt College, Chicago he was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He served as a Chaplain in the Korean War, and at pulpits in Houston and Tyler, Texas. In 1956, he became the first full-time Rabbi of Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County (Maryland). He embraced egalitarianism in women's full participation in synagogue life and rabbinic leadership in the Conservative movement. He served as President of the Washington Board of Rabbis and met with Senators, Congressmen and ambassadors.