Maple Valley native John V. Hardaway has been promoted to captain in the United States Navy. The ceremony took place on the World War II battleship Missouri, docked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Hardaway, the son of Chuck and Marge Hardaway, graduated from Tahoma High School. He was senior class president and a valedictorian for the class of 1986. He then attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in the top 50 of his class of over 1,000 in 1990.

Hardaway graduated from medical school at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland in 1994 and served as a Navy flight surgeon for two years at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

The following three years he did residency in Ophthalmology at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. John served one combat tour and is currently Director of Ophthalmology at Tripler Army Hospital, located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Hardaway and his wife Christina, a doctor of Dermatology, have two children, William, age 8, and Catherine, age 6.