The election of Sandra E. Roberts as executive secretary by the delegates at the 31st quinquennial constituency session of the Pacific Union Conference makes her the first ordained woman to hold this position in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Sandra E. Roberts Nominated for Pacific Union Conference Executive Secretary
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May 26, 2021
The Pacific Union Conference Nominating Committee has released a partial report of nominations ahead of the union’s 2021 Constituency Session, to be held August 15-16 in Tucson, Arizona. Headlining the nominees are Bradford C. Newton for president and Sandra E. Roberts for executive secretary.
If elected to the position, Roberts will be the first woman to serve as a union-conference executive secretary in the North American Division. She is currently president of the Southeastern California Conference, a position she has held since 2013.
Roberts was the first Adventist woman to be elected as a conference president, and her tenure has been opposed by the General Conference. In 2017, the Pacific Union Conference’s President’s Council voted not to submit their names for inclusion in