Beth Coye

Education and credentials: As the child of a career naval officer, I experienced about 11 public schools from kindergarten through high school); B.A. in Political Science, Wellesley College,1959; M.A. in International Relations, American University (School of International Service)1967), and Certificate of Naval Warfare from Naval War College (1-year program, 1970). Retired Commander, U.S. Navy.

Professional/Career Experience. Served twenty
one years as a naval officer, including three intelligence tours and commanding officer. Entrepreneur for four years. Taught Political Science at undergraduate colleges and universities for six years. Author and publisher, My Navy Too, a creative memoir, Cedar Hollow
Press, 1998.

Relevant experience. Activist and writer. Served
on several boards, including Service Members Legal Defense Network; Member, Forum on Military Chaplaincies; Editor, We Are Family Too, 2010. Essayist, Coming Out in Faith: UU LGBTQ
Voices, Skinner House, June 2011.

Religious History. Raised in Protestant Navy chapels and later Episcopalian. Unitarian Universalist since 1995. Participated actively at Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ashland, OR, including Past President; Past
Chair, Endowment; Past Chair, Council of Ministries; and, many other positions.