Dr. Ron Carter is an Executive Vice President of LLUH, Loma Linda University’s corporate organization.  Dr. Carter serves as University Provost and Chief Academic Officer. 

Provost Carter’s field of training is as a populations and conservation geneticist.  His post-doctoral work is in Molecular Systematics. He is a published editor and author of scientific books and papers on conservation and the genetics of speciation. 

Dr. Carter is an ordained SDA minister. He has served as youth pastor at the Arlington SDA Church, and college chaplain and religion teacher at Walla Walla University. At LLU, he has served as a researcher, mentor of graduate students, department chair, a Dean, and now as Provost.

His research has included studies in the Galapagos, the Amazon, the Bahamas, the Puget Sound of western Washington, China, and Indonesia.  His DNA studies have included population of sea birds, fish, shrimp, lizards, turtles, and sunflowers.

In 2010, Dr. Carter led Loma Linda University into regional re-accreditation with such success that he was invited to serve two terms (6 years) as a WSCUC (WASC) Commissioner. In 2020, he led the team through another successful accreditation reaffirmation cycle – this time involving the entire LLUH enterprise – resulting in another 10-year re-accreditation term.

His wife Kathleen is a retired nurse educator.  They have been married for more than 50 years and have three children (two daughters, one son), five grandsons and one granddaughter.