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Description: Janet Horton shares thoughts and experiences on how women being chaplains in the military was an idea that was hard for many military male chaplains to open their thought to or embrace as a way forward for the Army Chaplaincy.
Chaplain Colonel Janet Horton, US Army (Ret.) author ofCracking the Camouflage Ceiling: Faith Persistence and Progress in the Army Chaplaincy During the Early Integration of Women in the Military, is a native of Crystal, Michigan and grew up in Iowa. She is married to Jeffrey Harvey of Swanton, VT. She entered the U. S. Army in June 1976 served for 28 years as a Christian Science Chaplain. She was the first woman in the Army Chaplain Corps to be assigned as a Division or Corps level Supervisory Chaplain and the first woman to attain the grade of Colonel in the Army Chaplain Corps.
She had two tours in the Pentagon and prayed with casualties in the Pentagon Courtyard on 9-11. She supervised the religious support for Task Forces in Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo. She was the Chief of Leadership Training in the Combined Arms Department at the Soldier Support Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. She taught leadership courses at all levels of the military to include the NATO Chaplains Conference for the U.S. Air Force Chief of Chaplains. After training at the New Jersey State Police Academy her lesson plans on Personal Safety and Rape Prevention were adopted by the Armed Forces Training Board.
Her education includes a Masters of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology in Theology and a Maters of Arts Degree in Religious Studies from Stanford University in Religious Studies. She was selected as a Distinguished Alumni of Boston University School of Theology in September of 2011. She was the first woman Chaplain to attend the Army War College. From her studies of Divine Command Morality and the Abraham Tradition she has briefed on the Extremist mindset in the Military Intelligence community, the Inter Agencies such as Homeland Defense, the US Marshall’s Office and the Defense Intelligence Agency and at Pace University in New York City.
While serving at the Department of Defense Level she advised the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness on Muslim issues following the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon. She advised Army Operations Group and the Air Force Operations Group on the terrorist mindset.
She provides inspirational talks for Christian Science Nursing Facilities, Youth Summits and Student Association Meetings.
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