Rev. Tonia D. Leavy is the second of three children born to Jean and the late Edmond David Sr. She has been happily married to Gregory Leavy for twenty-four years and is the proud mother of Shaquontai and Tyler, as well as the loving grandmother of Nah’la Sarah and Charlie Mackenzie.

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Rev. Leavy holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a minor in Management. She has faithfully served in ministry for nineteen years, beginning her ministerial journey as an Exhorter in 2007. Under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Lynwood H. Leverette Sr., she continued to grow and advance in ministry, becoming a Minister in 2009 and an ordained Local Deacon in 2011. In 2015, under the leadership of Presiding Elder Kevin J. Agee and her pastor, Presiding Elder Patricia DeGrafenreid, she was ordained a Local Elder. In July 2026, Rev. Leavy reached another significant milestone in her ministerial journey when she was ordained a Traveling Elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Pastor Leavy is now entering her fourth year as the proud pastor of Williams Chapel C.M.E. Church, where we have been blessed by her God-given vision, faithful leadership, and divine direction. Her love for God and commitment to ministry continue to inspire and encourage the Williams Chapel church family.

Her favorite song is “I Love the Lord,” and her favorite Scripture is Romans 8:28–39. Rev. Leavy stands firmly persuaded that neither death nor life, angels nor principalities, powers, things present nor things to come, height nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate her from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.