Richard J. Wills Jr (born 3 August 1942) is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2004.
Wills was ordained a Deacon in the Florida Annual Conference of The Methodist Church in 1965.
in 1978, and the senior pastor of Christ Church United Methodist, Fort Lauderdale from 1986 to 2004.
He was on the Terring Committee of the Large Church Initiative of the General Board of Discipleship for twelve years.
He was assigned to the Nashville Episcopal Area (the Tennessee and Memphis Annual Conferences).
He said in a letter to the conference that the reason for his decision was that the neurosurgeon who performed his surgery, "indicates my lifestyle (travel and a lot of sitting) is contributing to my ongoing pain and discomfort.