Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt

General Authority Seventy

Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt says that ministering around the world as a counselor in the Young Men General Presidency helped bring to his new calling “a greater ability to listen to prophetic and apostolic direction and instruction with increasing care and faith.”

Called to serve in the Young Men General Presidency in April 2020, Elder Corbitt has spent the past three years working with other youth leaders to strengthen the rising generation and to invite them to be actively involved in the work of salvation and exaltation.

“I don’t think my sense of urgency to strengthen the rising generation will ever diminish,” he said. “They will be better leaders than we are because they will have grown up with opportunities to do the work of salvation and exaltation in higher and holier ways.”

Ahmad Saleem Corbitt, 60, was born on August 16, 1962, to James Earl Corbitt and Amelia Corbitt, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. On his 18th birthday, Ahmad joined the Church, following his mother and some siblings into the waters of baptism. His stepfather was baptized the next year.

After attending Ricks College (now Brigham Young University–Idaho) and serving in the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission from 1982 to 1984, he met Jayne Joslin during a young single adult temple trip. The couple married in August 1985 in the Washington D.C. Temple. They are the parents of six children.

Elder Corbitt has degrees from what is now Stockton University in New Jersey and from Rutgers University School of Law. He has served as president of the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission, stake president, counselor in two stake presidencies, and high councilor.

Elder Corbitt has worked as a trial lawyer, in public and government relations, as director of the Church’s New York Office of Public and International Affairs, and as an area mission specialist.