Doug has been an elder off and on for about 25 years. He and Joanna came to Trinity in 1992 when the church was founded. He graduated from San Diego State in 1971 and entered the USAF that same year. They were married in 1974 after she graduated from Biola. He raised seven boys and one girl. He came to NASA JSC in the Air Force in 1983, eventually became a NASA employee, and retired from there in 2022.