Duane B. Gerrard

Duane B. Gerrard served in the Second Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from April 1997 to October 2003. He retired from his career as a pilot on April 1, 1997. He is a former system manager of flight safety for Delta Airlines.

Gerrard was born on April 22, 1938, and grew up in Taylorsville, Utah. After he graduated from Utah State University, he joined the Air Force, where he trained as a pilot. While in the Air Force he flew 350 combat missions in Vietnam and was stationed in Florida, Oklahoma, Hawaii, and Utah. After moving his family to Atlanta, Georgia, he served as stake president and regional representative.

He and his wife, Kay, have four children and were foster parents to the four children of good friends who had died.