Thomas L. Lemon is the vice president of administration for the Mid-America Union. Having been president of the Minnesota Conference, he will now assist President Roscoe J. Howard III in leading the nine-state region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that stretches south from Canada to the Oklahoma border and west from the Mississippi River over the western slope of Rocky Mountains.

Elder Lemon began his career as a pastor in Maryland, also serving in Texas. He moved to Mid-America territory in 1996 as assistant to the president of the Rocky Mountain Conference. He then served as ministerial director in Oregon before accepting the leadership of Minnesota in 2006.