Chaplain (Major) Andrew P. Schmitz currently serves as the Bioethicist and Ethics Instructor at the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He is a member of the Brooke Army Medical Center Institutional Bioethics Committee and chairs its Clinical Ethics Consultation Subcommittee. He is an ordained Baptist minister endorsed by the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Chaplain Schmitz entered military service in 2006 as a Chaplain Assistant in the U.S. Army Reserve and commissioned through ROTC in 2011 as a Signal Corps officer in the Illinois Army National Guard. He later served in the U.S. Army Reserve Chaplain Candidate Program and accessioned into the Chaplain Corps in 2016. His key assignments include Battalion Chaplain, 470th Movement Control Battalion; Battalion Chaplain, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), including a 2019 deployment to Mosul, Iraq, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve; Chaplain, 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion in Grafenwoehr, Germany; and Battalion Chaplain, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He was named a Distinguished Member of the 327th Infantry Regiment in 2025.

Military education includes the Command and General Staff Officer Course (DL); Chaplain Captains Career Course, where he graduated as the Distinguished Honor Graduate; Clinical Pastoral Education; Basic Airborne Course; NATO and Partner Chaplain Operations Course; Combat Medical Ministry Course; and Common Faculty Development-Instructor Course. He holds the 7E Chaplain Ethicist and 7S Combat Medical Pastoral Care Specialist skill identifiers. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Olivet Nazarene University and a Master of Divinity in Christian Ministry and a Master of Theology in Philosophy and Theological Studies from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a PhD student in Ethics and Public Theology at Southern Seminary. He completed the MacLean Center Siegler Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and was a 2026 Fellow at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).

Awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal (2 OLC), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (2 OLC), Meritorious Unit Commendation (1 OLC), Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal with one campaign star, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon with numeral 2, Air Assault Badge, and Parachutist Badge. Th.M.