Jeffrey N. Walker

Jeffrey N. Walker is the associate managing editor of the Joseph Smith Papers Project and an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Walker was raised in Michigan and served an LDS mission in the Canada Montreal Mission. He received his bachelor's degree from Western Michigan University.

Walker earned a law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU. While at BYU, he served as an editor of the Brigham Young University Law Review. Walker practiced law in both Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Among other positions as a consultant and legal counsel for at least one major health care firm, Walker was a founding partner of the law firm Holman & Walker. Holman and Walker were among the attorneys for the defense when the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research was sued for alleged copyright infringement by Utah Lighthouse Ministries, Inc..[1]

Walker is the president of Western Architectural Services in Draper, Utah, a thematic manufacturing company (see www.western-architectural.com). He also is one of the founders of a national watch company, Precision Time (formerly Batteries & Bands).

Walker co-authored Gathering to La'ie (2011, Jonathan Napela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies Brigham Young University - Hawaii ISBN = 978-0-939154-10-4) with Riley Moore Moffat and Fred E. Woods.

Walker is also the treasurer of the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation and the managing editor of the foundation's journal, Mormon Historical Studies. He has managed to recover the tune of "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" used by John Taylor at Carthage Jail.[2] He was also involved in uncovering documents that more clearly showed George M. Hinkle as a traitor to the interests of the Latter-day Saints.[3] His contributions to the understanding of Mormon jurisprudence were acknowledged in John W. Welch's article "Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence".[4]

Walker's article "The Trials of Christ: The Silent Defense" was published by Biblicaltheology.com.[5] He has also given presentations to the John Whitmer Historical Association and the Mormon History Association.[6]

Walker currently serves as adjunct professor at BYU in religion and law.

Walker and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hepburn, are the parents of four children.

Notes

  1. ↑ report of case before the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
  2. ↑ Mormon Times, Oct. 11, 2008
  3. ↑ Mormon Times, February 11, 2010
  4. ↑ John W. Welch. "Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence" in Regent University Law Review
  5. ↑ link to this article
  6. ↑ program for MHA conference in Springfield, Illinois

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