Scouting in Utah has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.
Thomas Spencer Monson was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As president, he was considered by adherents of the religion to be a prophet, seer, and revelator. Monson's early career was as a manager at the Deseret News, a Utah newspaper owned by the LDS Church. He spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and public service.
Bruce Redd McConkie was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 until his death. McConkie was a member of the First Council of the Seventy of the LDS Church from 1946 until his calling to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
George Albert Smith Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the eighth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Young Men is a youth organization and official program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its purpose is to assist the church's Aaronic priesthood-aged young men in their growth and development. The organization serves young men from the year they turn 12 until they are 18.
Dwan Jacobsen Young was the seventh general president of the Primary organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1980 to 1988.
Robert LeGrand Backman was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Utah who was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1978 until his death.
Elbert Raine Curtis was the ninth general superintendent of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1948 to 1958. He was succeeded in the leadership of the YMMIA by Joseph T. Bentley.
Neil Dean Schaerrer was the fourteenth general president of the Young Men organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1977 to 1979.
Floyd Melvin ("Mel") Hammond was an Idaho politician and has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1989. He was the nineteenth general president of the church's Young Men organization from 2001 to 2004.
Jack H. Goaslind Jr. was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1978 until his death. He was the seventeenth general president of the church's Young Men organization from 1990 to 1998.
Marion Duff Hanks was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1953 until his death.
John Harris Taylor was one of the seven presidents of Seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Von Gary Keetch was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from April 2015 until his death. He was a shareholder in the law firm of Kirton McConkie and a member of the firm's Constitutional, Religious and Appellate Practice section. He defended land use rights of religious groups against state regulations, and argued against liability of religious groups for crimes committed by their members.
David LeRoy Beck is an American religious leader who served as the 21st Young Men General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2009 to 2015.
Oscar Walter McConkie was a Utah State Senator and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the father of Bruce R. McConkie, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church. A second son, Oscar W. McConkie, Jr., was a member of the Utah State Senate.
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.
Rosemary Mix Wixom was the general president of the Primary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2010 to 2016. She was the twelfth general president of the Primary, the organization that is responsible for the instruction of the church's children ages three to eleven.
David Merrill McConkie is an American lawyer and was a member of the general presidency of the Sunday School of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2009 to 2014.
Kirton McConkie is an American law firm headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the largest law firm in Utah, and it has long served as the external legal counsel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was ranked the 300th largest law firm in the United States in 2022 by the National Law Journal.
