L. Todd Budge
L. Todd Budge was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 2019. At the time of his call, he was serving as an Area Seventy and was a member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy in the Utah Salt Lake City Area. He was a full-time missionary in the Japan Fukuoka Mission, stake Young Men president, elders quorum president, stake executive secretary, bishop, stake president, and counselor in a bishopric. He presided over the Japan Tokyo Mission from 2012 to 2015.
Budge was released as a General Authority Seventy and sustained as second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric on October 3, 2020.
Budge was born on December 29, 1959, in Pittsburg, California. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Brigham Young University. He worked for Bain & Company Japan, Citibank N.A., and GE Capital in both Atlanta and Japan. In 2003 he became president and chief executive officer of Tokyo Star Bank Limited. From 2008 to 2011 he served as chairman of the board. He retired from the bank in 2011. During this time, he also served as a member of the board of directors for Hawaiian Airlines.
He and his wife, Lori Capener, are the parents of six children.
