Alvin F. Meredith III
Alvin Frazier Meredith III is the 18th president of Brigham Young University–Idaho. He was announced as the university's next president in May 2023, began service on August 1, 2023, and was inaugurated on October 10, 2023. He has been a general authority seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2021. He and his wife, Jennifer, served as mission leaders of the church's Utah Salt Lake City South Mission prior to his call as a general authority.
Personal life
Alvin Frazier Meredith III was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 22, 1970, to Alvin Frazier Meredith Jr. and Mary Smartt Meredith.After serving full-time as an LDS Church missionary in the Utah Salt Lake City Mission, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 1991 and a master's of business administration in 2001 from the University of Chicago.
He married Jennifer Denise Edgin on June 6, 1998, in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of six children.
Career
During his career, Meredith worked as a Six Sigma Black Belt for GE Capital, a consultant for Boston Consulting Group, and a senior vice president for Asurion.LDS Church service
Meredith served as an area seventy in both the sixth and eighth quorums of the seventy.Meredith and his wife served as leaders of the Utah Salt Lake City South Mission until April 2021.
Meredith was called as an LDS Church general authority on April 3, 2021.