Gordon Bietz serves as president of Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee.  Before becoming university president, Bietz served as president of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.  Bietz graduated from Andrews University with a doctor of ministry degree and a master of divinity degree.  He received a bachelor's degree in theology from La Sierra University. Bietz received a Merrill Fellowship from Harvard University and attended classes at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Law School, and the J.F. Kennedy School of Government.