| Brent H. Nielson | |
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| First Quorum of the Seventy | |
| April 4, 2009 – incumbent | |
| Called by | Thomas S. Monson |
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| Born | Brent Hatch Nielson December 8, 1954 Burley, Idaho, United States |
Brent Hatch Nielson (born December 8, 1954) is an American religious leader and has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2009.
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Nielson was born in Burley, Idaho.[1] Nielson is a great-grandson of Horton D. Haight and a cousin to David B. Haight, who was a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As a young man he was a missionary for the LDS Church in Finland.
Nielson graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1978, and received a law degree from the University of Utah in 1981.[1]
From 1985 to 2009, Nielson was a partner in Roy, Nielson, Barini-Garcia and Platts, a law firm in Twin Falls, Idaho. He specialized in workers compensation, bankruptcy, business and personal injury law.
In the LDS Church, Nielson has served in many callings in Twin Falls, Idaho, including as president of the Twin Falls Idaho West Stake. In April 2005, he became an area seventy in southern Idaho and a member of the church's Fifth Quorum of the Seventy.[2] In this position, he was involved with the planning and development of the church's Twin Falls Temple,[3] for which he served as committee coordinator.[4] In April 2009, he was called to full-time church service in First Quorum of the Seventy.
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