Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Executive Committee

Current Executive Committee Documents


1. Duties -- Between meetings of the Union Constituency, the executive committee has administrative power to act on behalf of the constituency. The executive committee appoints union leaders and committees, fills vacancies, grants and withdraws credentials and licenses, and transacts such executive business as is in harmony with union, division and general conference policy. The Pacific Union Executive Committee meets four times each year.

2. Membership -- Some people are members of the executive committee automatically because they have been elected to certain positions of leadership in the union. These positions include the four union officers, local conference presidents, union education director, union ethnic ministry coordinators, president of Pacific Press Publishing Association and president of Adventist Health. In addition, careful attention is given to making sure the committee includes ethnic, gender, geographic and lay/pastor balance. Current membership:

Pacific Union
Ricardo Graham, Chair
Bradford Newton, Vice Chair
Theodore Benson
Jorge Soria
VicLouis Arreola
Virgil Childs
Alberto Ingleton
Berit Von Pohle

Arizona Conference
Ed Keyes, President
Louis Fitting
Isabel Fritzler
Mervyn Williams
Van Bledsoe

Central California Conference
Ramiro Cano, President
Robert Bishop
Antonio Huerta
Pek Leong
Nathan Renner

Hawaii Conference
Ralph Watts, President
Michael Brownfield
Madonna Taueu


Nevada-Utah Conference
Leon Brown Sr., President
Rith Dok
Oneil Madden
Bob Moskiman

Northern California Conference
Jim Pedersen, President
Victor Anderson
Tracy Baerg
Hugo Leon
Barbara Morrison
Jeanice Warden-Washington

Southeastern California Conference
Sandra Roberts, President
Cherry Ashlock
Veronica Chalco
Mark Howard
Chris Oberg
Robin Park

Southern California Conference
Velino Salazar, President
Cherise Gardner
Richard Guy
Edgar Lloren
Kathleen Myers
Alejandra Quinteros

Adventist Health
Scott Reiner, President

Pacific Press Publishing Association
Dale Galusha, President

La Sierra University
Randal Wisbey, President

Pacific Union College
Bob Cushman, President