South Jordan is a city in south central Salt Lake County,Utah,United States,18 miles (29 km) south of Salt Lake City. Part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area,the city lies in the Salt Lake Valley along the banks of the Jordan River between the 10,000-foot (3,000 m) Oquirrh Mountains and the 11,000-foot (3,400 m) Wasatch Mountains. The city has 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of the Jordan River Parkway that contains fishing ponds,trails,parks,and natural habitats. The Salt Lake County fair grounds and equestrian park,67-acre (27 ha) Oquirrh Lake,and 37 public parks are located inside the city. As of 2020,there were 77,487 people in South Jordan.
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.
Larry J. Echo Hawk is an American attorney,legal scholar,and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Echo Hawk served under U.S. President Barack Obama as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs from 2009 to 2012. He previously served as the Attorney General of Idaho from 1991 to 1995,the first Native American elected to the position,and spent two terms in the Idaho House of Representatives. In 2012,he was called as a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As of 2022,Echo Hawk is the last Democrat to have served as Attorney General of Idaho.
Ted Lewis Wilson is an American politician who served as the 30th mayor of Salt Lake City from 1976 until July 1985. He won three elections. Wilson resigned during his third term to become the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah where he held an adjunct assistant professorship of Political Science.
Robert Heiner Garff was an American businessman and politician who served as chair of the Ken Garff Automotive Group. He also served as the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. He was a member of the Republican Party.
The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper that covers news and community events in Utah County,central Utah. Much of the coverage focuses on the Provo-Orem metropolitan area in Utah Valley.
William Orton was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah from 1991 to 1997.
This Divided State is a documentary film by first-time filmmaker Steven Greenstreet that details the conflict that erupted at Utah Valley State College,now called Utah Valley University,when controversial figure Michael Moore was scheduled to come speak on campus shortly before the 2004 presidential election.
Bruce Clark Hafen is an American attorney,academic and religious leader. He has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1996.
Marlin Keith Jensen is an American attorney who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1989. He served as the official Church Historian and Recorder of the church from 2005 to 2012. He was the 19th man to hold that calling since it was established in 1830. Jensen was made an emeritus general authority in the October 2012 general conference.
Ronald Kent Esplin is the managing editor of The Joseph Smith Papers project and the former director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Kathleen Burton Clarke is an American politician,who served as the national director of the United States Bureau of Land Management from 2001 to 2006. Clarke was the first woman to serve in this role.
Alice Marian Robertson Wilson was an American cellist,linguist and teacher most notable role as music editor of the eight-volume Coptic Encyclopedia. She was a daughter of Leroy Robertson and has written scholarly analyses of his works.
Paul Robert Cheesman was an American academic and a professor of religion at Brigham Young University (BYU).
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.
David Keith Nelson is an American activist for the protection of equal rights for lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. He founded or helped found several LGBT-related nonprofit organizations in Utah and helped direct others. His work with the Democratic Party encouraged many LGBT Utahns to serve as party leaders. His work as a legislative and executive lobbyist accomplished the adoption of several LGBT- and weapon-friendly state and local laws,rules,ordinances and policies,and the rejection of other legislation.
Oliver Preston Robinson (1903–1990) was a prominent advertising professor at the University of Utah and later editor of the Deseret News.
Amram Musungu was a candidate in the Kenyan 2017 presidential election.
L. Jackson Newell is an American historian and philosopher of higher education,specializing in the study and leadership of progressive colleges from Antioch College and Berea College prior to the Civil War through the new wave taking root in the early 2020s,including Outer Coast College,Thoreau College,and the Tidelines Institute. He has served as professor of educational leadership and dean of Liberal Education at the University of Utah,and as president of Deep Springs College.
