Joanne Martindale
Joanne Martindale is the Veterans (VA) Chaplain and CPE Supervisor at David Grant Medical Center on Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, CA. She began the CPE program there in 2014.
Chaplain Martindale has been in the New Jersey Army National Guard and the Army Reserves as a chaplain since 1990. As a colonel in the Army Reserve, she presently serves as the Command Chaplain for the 63rd Readiness Division.
Her distinguished career in military chaplaincy includes service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during Desert Storm/Desert Shield in 1991, as Deployment Support Chaplain in Schweinfurt and Bamberg, Germany for three-and-a-half years, and as Division Support Command Chaplain in Operation Iraqi Freedom III at Forward Operating Base Speicher for 545 days.
She was a first responder at Ground Zero in New York City during 9-11, helping firefighters, FEMA workers, military personnel and families who lost loved ones. In 1996 she was hand picked by the governor of New Jersey to be the lead trauma counselor for Rwandan refugees after the genocide in their home country.
As a civilian, Joanne served as Director of Chaplaincy at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey where she supervised a staff of 12 chaplains caring for 864 state psychiatric patients.
She is a graduate of California State University at Northridge with a BA in English Literature and Law. She received her Masters in Counseling from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1986 and her Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1988. She also graduated from the United States Army War College with a Masters in Military Strategy in 2018.
Chaplain Martindale is a Diplomate CPE supervisor. She has two sons. Quinn is a mechanical engineer in Denver, and Ryan is currently completing a double master’s degree at Columbia University in New York.