Alvin F. Meredith III

Elder Alvin F. Meredith III was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 3, 2021. At the time of his call, he was serving as the president of the Utah Salt Lake City South Mission. He is currently serving as the president of Brigham Young University–Idaho.

Elder Meredith served as a member of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventy in the North America Southeast Area and as a member of the Eighth Quorum of the Seventy in the Asia Area. He has served in a number of other Church callings, including stake president, bishop, elder’s quorum president, and full-time missionary in the Utah Salt Lake City Mission.

He received a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In his professional career, he worked for Asurion, The Boston Consulting Group, and GE Capital.

Alvin Frazier Meredith III was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 22, 1970. He married Jennifer Edgin in 1998. They are the parents of six children.