Leader Biographies
Elder L. Whitney Clayton
He was sustained as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on March 31, 2001. He currently serves as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy and has supervisory responsibility for the North America West and North America North West Areas. He had previously served as an Area Seventy for the North America West Area for six years. Elder Clayton served as a counselor in the South America South Area Presidency in 2002-2003 and as president during 2003-2006. He formerly served as an assistant executive director of the Family and Church History Department and member of the Church Public Affairs Committee.
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Elder L. Whitney Clayton, Presidency of the Seventy.
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His professional career was in law where he was a business litigation attorney with Call, Clayton & Jensen, a California law firm. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance at the University of Utah and a law degree at the University of the Pacific.
He has served the Church as a regional representative, mission president’s counselor, stake high councilor, bishop, stake mission president, gospel doctrine teacher, and as a full-time missionary in Peru.
Elder Clayton was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1950. He married Kathy Ann Kipp on August 9, 1973 in the Salt Lake Temple. They are parents of seven children and grandparents of eight grandchildren.
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