The daughter of Pastor and Mrs. Douglas Chandler, Sr., Rev. Pamela Chandler Lee, Ph.D. was born in Emporia, Virginia, and was educated in the Greensville County Schools. Reared in a Christian household, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and was baptized at a young age.

After graduating high school, Dr. Lee began matriculating at Norfolk State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, and was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy. Earning the coveted gold surface warfare qualification, Dr. Lee served her country for eight years, with valor and distinction, at home and abroad, on land and at sea. She later earned a master’s degree in Linguistics from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University in Virginia Beach.

In 1998, Dr. Lee answered the divine call of God and became the first woman licensed to preach the Gospel by the Mount Bethel Baptist Church in Virginia Beach. In 2005, she was ordained by the Bethlehem Baptist Church through the Bluestone-Harmony Ministers’ Association of Mecklenburg County, Virginia.

She currently enjoys the privilege of evangelizing for Christ. She is also an advisor and one of the founding members of Women in Touch Ministries, a Christian organization which strives to enrich, motivate, cultivate, and elevate women through the study of God’s Word. She serves on the Board of Directors of Love and Hope Ministries, Inc., an international mission which serves widows and orphans in some of the most underdeveloped areas in the world.

She is the Associate Dean of Students for Regent University’s School of Undergraduate Studies, and an adjunct professor for Regent and Troy University. She has published and presented research in the areas of spirituality in the workplace and women in leadership.

Dr. Lee is married to the Rev. Dr. Ricky A. Lee, Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, and a retired Naval officer; the couple resides in Virginia Beach.