David F. Evans
| David F. Evans | |
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| First Quorum of the Seventy | |
| April 2, 2005 – incumbent | |
| Called by | Gordon B. Hinckley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | David Frewin Evans August 11, 1951 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
David Frewin Evans (born August 11, 1951) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2005. In 2008, he was serving as president of the church's Asia North Area. On October 1, 2011, he succeeded Elder Richard G. Hinckley as Executive Director of the Church's Missionary Department.
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[edit] Early life, education, and career
Evans was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up in Los Angeles, California, where his father David C. Evans worked for Bendix Corporation. His mother Joy F. Evans was as a counselor to Barbara W. Winder in the general presidency of the church's Relief Society from 1984 to 1990.
Evans served as a Mormon missionary in the church's Japan Mission from 1970 to 1972. After his mission, he received a bachelor's degree in community health education from the University of Utah and a juris doctorate from Brigham Young University. He then worked as a member of the Salt Lake City law firm of Durham, Jones and Pinegar. He later worked as an executive with SEI USA in Newport Beach, California and was a partner in the law firm of Snell and Willmer.
[edit] LDS Church service
In the LDS Church, Evans has served as a bishop, stake young men president and scout master. From 1998 to 2001, Evans was the president of the church's Japan Nagoya Mission.
In early 2002, Evans became the president of the Salt Lake University 4th Stake, a stake for married students of the University of Utah who were living off-campus. In August 2004, it was decided these individuals should attend the regular geographical ward in which they resided, so the stake was disbanded. At this point, Evans became the president of the Salt Lake Emigration Stake, a position that he remained in until his call as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy at the April 2005 general conference of the church.
Evans and his wife, the former Mary Dee Shepherd, have eight children.
[edit] References
- Church News, June 7, 2008; October 6, 2007; April 23, 2005; April 27, 2002
- Deseret Morning News 2008 Church Almanac (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2007) pp. 44, 283
- “Elder David F. Evans Of the Seventy,” Liahona, May 2005, p. 122
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