Joseph I. Bentley

Joseph I. Bentley graduated from The University of Chicago Law School and is a retired partner in the law firm of Latham & Watkins. He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and co-authored, with Dallin Oaks, “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo,” published in BYU Studies 19, no.&nsp;2 (1979). He has served as a volume editor for the Joseph Smith Papers Project, as chair of the Council for Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University, as International Board Chair of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, and as Director of LDS Public Affairs for Orange County, California. He currently presides at the Newport Beach California Temple.