President Dallin H. Oaks

Dallin H. Oaks is the eighteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sustained and set apart on October 14, 2025. He was ordained an Apostle in May 1984.

Born on August 12, 1932, in Provo, Utah, President Oaks is a graduate of Brigham Young University (1954) and the University of Chicago Law School (1957). He practiced law and taught law in Chicago, served as President of Brigham Young University (1971–1980), and was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court (1980–1984) before resigning to accept his calling as an Apostle.

He and his late wife, June Dixon Oaks, are the parents of six children. She passed away on July 21, 1998. On August 25, 2000, he married Kristen M. McMain in the Salt Lake Temple.

President Oaks has served on the boards of numerous business, educational, and charitable organizations and is the author or co-author of many books and articles on religious and legal subjects. In May 2013, he received the Canterbury Medal from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty for his “courage in the defense of religious liberty.”