Sister Anna Marie McGuan is a Religious Sister of Mercy of Alma, Michigan. She was reared in Gary, Indiana and entered the Institute of the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 2003. Prior to entering the community, she studied at the United States Military Academy at West Point for one year before discerning a call to the religious life. She has since studied in Rome, first at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and then at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, completing her Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 2016. She serves the Diocese of Knoxville as the Director of the Office of Christian Formation.