Carl B. Pratt
Carl Barton Pratt is an emeritus general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was sustained a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 5, 1997. He was given emeritus status in October 2011.
Pratt was born on October 30, 1941, in Monterrey, Mexico, while his father, Carl Barton Pratt Sr., was working for American Smelting and Refining. Elder Pratt lived in Colonia Dublán, Mexico, from 1943 to 1947. Both of Elder Pratt’s parents had grown up in the Mormon colonies and were former missionaries to Mexico. Pratt is a great-great-grandson of Elder Parley P. Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
After 1947, Arizona became his home. He received a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Arizona and a juris doctorate degree from Arizona State University.
His professional career led him to practice law in Tucson, and to be a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, as well as legal counsel at Kirton & McConkie for 19 years, serving the Church in South America—in Montevideo, Uruguay; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Peru; and Quito, Ecuador.
In 1969, he married Karen Ann Yeoman in the Mesa Arizona Temple; he had baptized her in 1968. They are the parents of eight children and have provided foster care for a number of abandoned South American children. He has served the Church in numerous callings including, full-time missionary in the Argentina Mission, bishop’s counselor, stake president’s counselor, Regional Representative in Peru, temple sealer, stake mission president, president of the Spain Seville Mission (1988–1991), and Area Seventy.
