Washington Johnson II currently serves as the Director of Adventist Chaplaincy

Ministries, the ecclesiastical endorsing agency for the North American Division of

Seventh-day Adventists. Johnson is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist Minister, Board

Certified Chaplain by The National Association of Veteran Affairs Chaplains.

He is additionally responsible for the National Service Organization (NSO) which

supports Seventh-day Adventists members serving in the Armed Forces with religious

accommodations, emerging Department of Defense policies and advise church

leadership, members on military service. His pastoral ministry has spanned throughout

the South Central and Northern California Conferences of Seventh-day Adventists. He

was commissioned as a Chaplain in the United States Navy in 1998, retiring in 2022

with the rank of Captain.



 Johnson is an alumnus of Oakwood University (Huntsville, AL), the Seventh-day

Adventist Theological Seminary (Berrien Springs, MI), and Reformed Theological

Seminary (Clinton, MS), receiving Bachelor of Arts, Master of Divinity, and Doctor of

Ministry degrees, respectively. He is married to Joyce Johnson, Ph.D., Dean of

Washington Adventist University’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies

(SGPS), and has one son, Washington Johnson III, MD a surgery resident at Swedish

Medical Center in Seattle, WA. His favorite scriptural passage is “I can do all things

through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13