Jeffrey R. Holland

Jeffrey R. Holland was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 23, 1994. At the time of this call, Elder Holland was serving as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, to which he had been called on April 1, 1989. From 1980 until his call as a General Authority in 1989, Jeffrey R. Holland served as the ninth president of Brigham Young University. He is a former Church Commissioner of Education and dean of the College of Religious Education at BYU. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and religious education, respectively, from Brigham Young University. He obtained a master’s degree and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.