Dallin Harris Oaks is an American religious leader and former jurist and academic who since 2018 has been the first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called as a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1984. Currently,he is the second most senior apostle by years of service and is the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Olene Walker was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Utah from 2003 to 2005,succeeding the governorship after Mike Leavitt's resignation. A member of the Republican Party,Walker was Utah's first female governor and the first female lieutenant governor of Utah.
Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a British-American politician,physician,Utah women's rights advocate,suffragist,and a polygamous wife engaged in polygyny. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled West to settle in the Utah territory with other church members. She started working at the age of fourteen,and at sixteen she enrolled in the University of Deseret,receiving a bachelor's degree in Chemistry. She later attended the University of Michigan and received an M.D.. She became the fourth of six wives in a polygamous marriage to Angus M. Cannon,a prominent Latter-day Saint leader during the anti-polygamy crusade. Cannon exiled herself to Europe so she wouldn't have to testify against her husband and others. Upon returning to Utah,Cannon worked as a doctor and fought for women's rights. She helped put women enfranchisement into Utah's constitution when it was granted statehood in 1896. On November 3,1896,Cannon became the first female state senator elected in the United States,defeating her own husband,who was also on the ballot. Cannon was the author of Utah sanitation laws and was a founder and member of Utah's first State Board of Health.
Brigham Young College was a college and high school in Logan,Utah. It was founded by Brigham Young on 6 August 1877,23 days before his death. He deeded several acres of land to a board of trustees for the development of a college. This was just two years after he founded Brigham Young Academy in Provo in 1875,which became Brigham Young University in 1903.
Margaret Dayton is an American politician from Utah. A member of the Republican Party,she served longer in the Utah Legislature than any other woman in Utah history. After serving a decade in the Utah House of Representatives,she unseated an incumbent senator in 2006 and served in that position until June 2018,when she resigned for medical reasons.
Howard A. Stephenson is a Utah politician who represented the State's 11th senate district in Salt Lake County including Draper from 1992 through 2018.
Norman Randy Smith is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He lives and maintains chambers in Pocatello,Idaho.
Brett L. Tolman is an American lawyer. He served as a United States attorney for the District of Utah from July 2006 to December 2009. Before becoming U.S. attorney,Tolman worked as counsel in the Senate Judiciary Committee for committee chairs Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and then Arlen Specter (R-PA) during the 109th United States Congress. Tolman's most noteworthy work in the Senate is his role in the passage of the 2005 Patriot Act reauthorization. He was instrumental in the revisions to the appointment process of interim U.S. attorneys and is a major figure in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.
Alice Louise Reynolds was a Brigham Young University (BYU) professor. Reynolds furthered her studies out east,receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She taught college-level courses at Brigham Young Academy until it dissolved into BYU,and she was the first woman to do so. She was the second woman in Utah to be named a full professor,and the first woman to be a full professor at BYU. She worked to establish the library at Brigham Young Academy,and through her efforts,she was able to collect over 100,000 donated volumes. She worked as an editor for the Relief Society Magazine and contributed to other LDS Church-affiliated magazines. Reynolds was an outspoken Democrat and served on the party's committee and as a delegate to the party's national convention. Reynolds died in 1938 of cancer.
Mary Ellen Wood Smoot was the thirteenth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1997 to 2002.
Maud May Babcock was the first female member of the University of Utah's faculty. She taught at the university for 46 years,beginning in 1892. While there she established the University Theater,originated the first college dramatic club in the United States,led the production of the first university stage play,directed over 300 plays and taught. She also founded the Department of Speech and the Department of Physical Education at the University of Utah.
Adele Morris Cannon Howells was the fourth Primary general president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1943 until her death of rheumatic heart disease. She contributed to The Children's Friend magazine,as well as the fundraising for the Children's Primary Hospital in Salt Lake City,Utah.
Cecil Scott Grow is an American politician and religious leader and has been the State Senator for Idaho's District 14 since his appointment in August 2018. Grow has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2005.
David Sam is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Ivan Junius Barrett was an American author,professor,and historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg is a former district court judge of the 3rd judicial district of Utah. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 2014 was called as a member of the church's general board of the Young Women organization.
Oscar Walter McConkie Jr. was an American politician and attorney in Utah and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the president of the Utah State Senate from 1965 to 1966,subsequently becoming the chairman of the law firm of Kirton McConkie. McConkie authored several popular books on Latter-day Saint subjects.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012,and elected the four U.S. representatives from the state of Utah,an increase of one seat in reapportionment following the 2010 United States census. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial federal presidential election,a concurrent quadrennial statewide gubernatorial election,all other simultaneous quadrennial statewide executive official election,and an election to the U.S. Senate. Primary elections were held on June 26,2012.
David Bruce Barlow is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah and a former United States attorney for the same district.
Karen Kwan is an American politician serving in the Utah State Senate from the 12th district. On January 16,2023 she was selected by delegates of the Utah Democratic Party to replace resigning Senator Karen Mayne. Before her appointment to the Senate she served in the Utah House of Representatives,representing the 34th district from 2017 to 2023. She also previously served as the House Minority Whip.
