Alvin F. Meredith
Alvin F. Meredith III was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 3, 2021. At the time of his call, he had been serving as the president of the Utah Salt Lake City South Mission. He served as a member of the Eighth Quorum of the Seventy in the Asia Area from 2016 to 2018 and as a member of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventy in the North America Southeast Area from 2012 to 2016.
He has also served as elders quorum president, bishop, stake president, and full-time missionary in the Utah Salt Lake City Mission.
Meredith was born on July 22, 1970, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He received a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and a master of business administration degree in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Prior to his call as a mission president, he was a senior vice president at Asurion. He worked as a consultant for Boston Consulting Group from 2001 to 2003. From 1995 to 1999, he worked as a Six Sigma Black Belt for GE Capital.
He and his wife, Jennifer Edgin, are the parents of six children.
On May 16, 2023, he was named the new president of BYU-Idaho, effective August 1, 2023.[1]
