Quentin L. Cook

Quentin La Mar Cook ( born September 8, 1940 in Logan, Utah) is an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints since 2007 and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Life

Cook grew up in Logan, Utah on along with two siblings. From 1960 to 1962 he was a missionary in the UK. After his return he married on November 30, 1962 in the Logan Utah Temple. His wife, whom he had met during high school. The marriage produced three children. Cook studied political science at Utah State University in 1963 and received a bachelor's degree. Now with his wife, he moved to California, where he continued his studies at Stanford University and spent the next 33 years of his life. In 1966 he received from Stanford University with a Juris Doctor. He was now lying in the, in the San Francisco Bay Area law firm of Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson and Horn worked. Later in his career, he became a partner in the law firm. Later, he became president and CEO of California Healthcare System, and after emergence of this company in Sutter Health Vice Chairman of the latter.

In April 1996, Cook was, who had been an active parishioner of his church in San Francisco, a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. In 1998 he moved to the First Quorum of the Seventy. Later he became one next to the Presidency of the Seventy. On October 6, 2007 Cook of the Church of Jesus Christ was called the Latter-day Saints Gordon B. Hinckley to be an apostle and thus entered into the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He filled the vacancy so that was caused by the appointment of Henry B. Eyring 2nd Counselor in the First Presidency, the highest governing body of the church.

The Apostle Heber C. Kimball is his great great grandfather mother's side.