Chaplain

LCDR R. Kamille Williams, USN

A native of Stone Mountain, GA, Chaplain Williams is the youngest daughter of Rev. Roy and Mrs. Carroll Williams. Growing up as a preacher’s kid, Kamille initially had no desire to serve in ministry but thought she would become an attorney and a judge.

She entered Spelman College in the fall of 2002 as a Political Science major. However, by the summer of 2004 while completing a Congressional Internship, she received her call to ministry. She changed her major from Political Science to Religion and graduated in the spring of 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. Kamille was also inducted into the Religious Honor Society Theta Alpha Kappa.

After graduating from Spelman, she immediately entered Duke University’s School of Divinity with an academic scholarship. While in seminary, Kamille discovered her passion for mission work after taking trips to Peru and Haiti. She was also able to spend a summer living in Guatemala and El Salvador working with the Methodist Church of El Salvador serving as a translator in the clinics and providing pastoral services of preaching, teaching, and counseling in the local churches. Kamille also completed one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Duke University Hospital. She graduated from Duke Divinity on Mother’s Day 2009.

Following seminary, Kamille continued working with the Methodist Church of El Salvador. She also started researching military chaplaincy as it seemed to align with her desire to minister around the world. She spoke with a Navy recruiter and the rest was history. On 11 May 2011, in the Navy recruiting offices in downtown Atlanta, Kamille was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy.