Paducah native graduates from defense comptroller program 

On Friday, Paducah native Captain Chaplain Joseph “Stoney” Douthitt graduated from the Defense Comptroller Program of Syracuse University.

The intensive program will grant Douthitt a Master’s in Business Administration from the Whitman School of Management and both an Executive Master’s in Public Administration and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the Maxwell School of Public Administration. 

The Heath High School graduate was commissioned into U.S. Army as a Chaplain in 2014 after serving in the civilian ministry for 20 years. He received his undergraduate degree in Business and Economics from the University of Kentucky, a Master’s of Science in Economics from Murray State University and a Master’s of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. 

Douthitt will utilize his new degrees during a 3-year assignment as the U. S. Army’s Installation Management Chaplain Comptroller in San Antonio, Texas. He has also been selected to promote to the rank of Major in October 2022.