David Thomas is currently Professor of Theology and Dean of the School of Theology. He has been a member of the faculty at Walla Walla University since the summer of 2001.  Prior to joining the faculty, Thomas spent some 24 years in pastoral work in New England, and in Washington.  Thomas, an ordained minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was born on the continent of Africa of British missionary parentage. He emigrated to the United States to attend college. He is a graduate of Atlantic Union College (BA 1975) and Andrews University (MDiv 1978). He received his doctorate in Pastoral Ministry from Andrews University in 1999.  Thomas married Loralee Minty, an Elementary Education major from Massachusetts who currently teaches at Rogers Adventist School. They have two sons Matthew and Jonathan who are now gone from home into the adult world where one works as a structural engineer, the other as an auditor.