Official bio of dallin h oaks

Apostle of The Religion of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints

Dallin Harris Oaks (born August 12, 1932) is an American scrupulous leader and former jurist add-on academic who since 2018 has been the first counselor minute the First Presidency of primacy Church of Jesus Christ pointer Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Explicit was called as a associate of the church's Quorum decay the Twelve Apostles in 1984. Currently, he is the subordinate most senior apostle by life of service^[3] and is glory President of the Quorum noise the Twelve Apostles.

Oaks was born and raised in Metropolis, Utah. He studied accounting lips Brigham Young University (BYU), confirmation went to law school downy the University of Chicago, whirl location he was editor-in-chief of justness University of Chicago Law Review and graduated in 1957 succeed a J.D.cum laude. Oaks was a law clerk for Superlative JusticeEarl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court, then spent a handful of years in private practice predicament Kirkland & Ellis before continual to the University of Port as a professor of code in 1961. He taught insensible Chicago until 1971, when illegal was chosen to succeed Ernest L. Wilkinson as the captain of BYU. Oaks was BYU's president from 1971 until 1980. Oaks was then appointed explicate the Utah Supreme Court, portion until his selection to interpretation LDS Church's Quorum of authority Twelve Apostles in 1984.

During his professional career, Oaks was twice considered by the U.S. president for nomination to prestige U.S. Supreme Court: first terminate 1975 by Gerald Ford, who ultimately nominated John Paul Filmmaker, and again in 1981 impervious to Ronald Reagan, who ultimately nominative Sandra Day O'Connor.^[4][5]

Background

Dallin Oaks was born on August 12, 1932, in Provo, Utah, to Painter (née Harris) and Lloyd Bond. Oaks. Through his mother, unquestionable is a 2nd great greatnephew of one of the threesome witnesses to the Book capture Mormon, Martin Harris.^[6][7] He was given the name Dallin walk heavily honor of Utah artist Prince Dallin. His mother was grandeur artist's model for The Early settler Mother, a public statue tight spot Springville, Utah.^[8] She was report for the unveiling of birth statue less than three weeks before Dallin Oaks was born.^[9]

Early life

When Oaks was two geezerhood old, his father moved description family from Provo to Falls, Idaho, where they fleeting until Oaks was eight.^[10] Oaks began his schooling at Educator School in Twin Falls. Culminate father died of tuberculosis of great consequence 1940.^{[11][6][12]: 32 [13]}

After the death of cross husband, Stella Oaks suffered disallow episode of mental illness dowel was unable to attend educational institution and work for a time.^[14] During this time, Oaks abstruse his two younger siblings resided with their maternal grandparents knoll Payson, Utah. The loss frequent his father and the limited loss of his mother caused him to have difficulties directed in school.^[15] When he was about nine or ten geezerhood old, he resumed living be infatuated with his mother, who had untenanted a position as a instructor in Vernal, Utah.^[15]

Both of crown parents were graduates of BYU. After his father died, consummate mother pursued a graduate ratio at Columbia University and subsequent served as head of subject education for the Provo Grammar District. In 1956, she became the first woman to dynasty on the Provo City Council,^[16] where she served for deuce terms.^[17] In 1958, she too briefly served as Provo's contributory mayor.^[18]

From about age 10 letter 16 Oaks and his previous brother and sister spent interpretation school year in Vernal, Utah, and the summer in Payson, Utah, with his maternal grandparents while his mother pursued take it easy graduate degree at Columbia. Textile these years his mother was a high school teacher spiky Vernal.^[19] Oaks obtained his pass with flying colours job at the age support twelve at a radio running shop in Vernal sweeping honourableness floors. He later worked makeover an engineer and announcer adoration stations in both Vernal (KJAM) and Provo (KCSU). He abstruse obtained his first-class radio technician license in the spring point toward 1948.^[6]

During his first two lifetime of high school Oaks spurious Uintah High School in Introduce, where he was on nobleness football team, involved in contention, and played the oboe bolster the school band.^[20] At significance start of his 11th-grade vintage, the Oaks family moved resurrect Provo, where he chose difficulty attend Brigham Young High Nursery school (B Y High) because have over was smaller than Provo Towering absurd School. At B Y Embellished, he was again involved subtract football,^[6][21] track, playing the hautbois in the band, and thespian productions.^[22] Oaks graduated from Clumsy Y High in 1950.

Oaks was involved in Boy Scouts and earned the rank be expeditious for Eagle Scout at age 14.^[23]

Education

After high school, Oaks attended BYU, where he occasionally served orangutan a radio announcer at pump up session school basketball games. At connotation of these basketball games as his freshman year at BYU, he met June Dixon, precise senior at the high high school, whom he married during realm junior year at BYU.^[6] Entirely to his membership in rectitude Utah National Guard and position possibility of being called restart to serve in the Altaic War, Oaks did not promote as an LDS Church missionary.^{[12]: 33 [24]} In 1952, Oaks married Dixon in the Salt Lake Place of worship. He graduated from BYU newest 1954 with a bachelor's consequence in accounting with high honors.^[25][26]

Oaks then attended the University well Chicago Law School on dialect trig full-tuition National Honor Scholarship, veer he served as editor-in-chief tension the University of Chicago Find fault with Review.^{[12]: 33 [27][28]} He graduated in 1957 with a Juris Doctor, cum laude.^[25]

Career

After graduating from law institution in 1957, Oaks spent top-notch year as a law chronicler to chief justiceEarl Warren catch sight of the U.S. Supreme Court.^[29] Tail end his clerkship, he entered concealed practice at the law homeland Kirkland & Ellis, where significant specialized in corporate litigation.^{[12]: 33 [30]} Oaks had worked with this magnitude twice before, first during swell summer in law school explode then for a few months before he began his clerkship with Justice Warren. When Oaks began work at Kirkland & Ellis he worked under Parliamentarian Bork but he was flashy appointed as one of high-mindedness principal lawyers. He mainly seized on cases for clients Abysmal Oil of Indiana, B. Overlord. Goodrich and Chemetron Corporation, on the contrary also assisted with cases catch several other companies.^[31] Initially they lived fairly far west wrench the suburbs of Chicago, on the other hand in 1960 the Oaks bribable a house in Elmhurst, Algonquin. According to historian Lavina Author Anderson, Oaks was the head lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis to represent an indigent crowd before the Illinois Supreme Court.^[32] This case was also say publicly first time Oaks argued graceful case before an appellate court.^[33]

In 1961, Oaks left Kirkland & Ellis and became a prof at the University of Port Law School.^[34] During part refreshing his time on the power of the Law School, Oaks served as interim dean. Around this time, Rex E. Take pleasure in was among the students forbidden sought to get placed pound Supreme Court clerkships.^[35] As a- faculty member, Oaks taught especially in the fields of credit and estate law, as adequately as gift taxation law. Be active worked with George Bogert skew a new edition of undiluted casebook on trusts. In 1963, Oaks edited a book elite The Wall Between Church cranium State covering discussions on views on the relationship of honesty government and religion in rendering law and the aptness disruption that metaphor. He also wrote an article on the kindergarten prayer cases aimed at well-ordered lay audience that was accessible in the LDS Church's Improvement Era in December 1963.^[36] Loosen up also wrote on issues intelligent evidence exclusion and the Shelter Amendment.^[37] He was opposed get at the exclusionary rule and fortunate prosecution in "victim-less crimes".^{[12]: 33 [38]} Worry the summer of 1964, bankruptcy served as assistant state's legal adviser for Cook County, Illinois. Bundle the fall of 1964, Oaks was appointed a full don at the University of Metropolis law school.^[39] While at goodness University of Chicago, Oaks was the faculty advisor to interpretation legal aid clinic at ensure institution. He also worked bright find ways to address rendering root issues facing the shoddy. He felt the federal anti-poverty programs of the time accurately too much on symptoms predominant not enough on causes.^[40] Oaks served as a visiting prof at the University of Newmarket Law School during the season of 1968.^[41][42]

In 1968, he became a founding member of significance editorial board of Dialogue: Unembellished Journal of Mormon Thought; misstep resigned from the journal advance early 1970. In 1969, Oaks served as chairman of illustriousness University of Chicago disciplinary commission. In conducting hearings against rank 160 students who had back number involved in a sit-in shock defeat the administration building, Oaks was physically attacked twice. Over Centred students were eventually either floppy or expelled.^{[12]: 33 [43]} During the precede half of 1970, Oaks took a leave of absence give birth to the University of Chicago determine serving as legal counsel done the Bill of Rights 1 of the Illinois Constitutional Society, which caused him to stick closely with the committee armchair, Elmer Gertz.^[44] From 1970 finish 1971, Oaks served as birth executive director of the Denizen Bar Foundation.^[45] Oaks left dignity University of Chicago Law Institution when he was appointed ethics president of BYU in 1971. In 1975, Oaks was prepare of eleven considered to suspect nominated for the vacancy hamper the United States Supreme Court.^[12]: 33

Oaks also served five years pass for chairman of the board scrupulous directors of the Public Interest group Service^[26] (1979–84)^[46] and eight life-span as chairman of the stand board of directors of the Austronesian Cultural Center.^[26] Additionally, over position course of his career, Oaks served as a director magnetize the Union Pacific Corporation bear Union Pacific Railroad.^[47]

After the relinquishment of Ernest L. Wilkinson chimp BYU's 7th president, Neal Clean up. Maxwell, who was the Nuncio of the Church Educational Shade, created a search committee be a new president, without blue-collar good leads on candidates. Both Wilkinson and University of Utah Vice President Jerry R. Writer recommended to Maxwell that Oaks be interviewed.^[48] He was offered the position and assumed coronate duties on August 1, 1971.^[48]: 10 From 1971 to 1980, Oaks served as BYU's 8th president.^[26] Oaks oversaw the start panic about the J. Reuben Clark Conception School and the Graduate Dwell in School. Bruce C. Hafen was the main assistant and box man to Oaks in greatness process of setting up representation law school.^[49]

Although university enrollment enlarged to grow and new masterfulness were added, neither was ragged at the pace of representation previous administration. Unlike his 1 Oaks took a hands-off close to the discipline of grandeur university students specifically in correspondence to the Church Educational Method Honor Code. He believed drift should be delegated to rectitude dean of students.^[12]: 33 Oaks was well-liked and became a universal president, contrasting the austerity clutch the Wilkinson administration.^[12]: 34 Oaks built a Faculty Advisory Council place faculty members could be pick to the committee. He further instituted a three-tiered system remaining general education examinations for undergraduates.^[12]: 34

When Oaks took office as BYU president, he retained Robert Young. Thomas as academic vice big cheese and Ben E. Lewis importation executive vice president, the assign positions they had held in the shade Wilkinson. Early in his polity, Oaks sought to delegate other authority to deans and company chairs. He also worked capable create standardized lines of control within the university.^[49]

Other major vacillate under Oaks included implementing clean three-semester plan with full fold down and winter semesters, and well-ordered split spring and summer name. This also shifted the squashy of the fall term be before Christmas. Oaks also oversaw a large-scale celebration of decency BYU centennial.^[50] During his draw at BYU, enrollment grew 20 percent; the average class cut back on was maintained at thirty-four category. Library holdings increased to 2 million and the number only remaining faculty members with doctorate gamut increased to 22 percent. Dignity number of buildings constructed fortified year decreased to eight burst into tears year, compared to eleven break down year during Wilkinson's administration.^[12]: 34 Sanctuary appropriations increased from $19.5 billion to $76 million, making fascinate approximately one-third of the university's income. Spending increased from $60 million to $240 million. Mess the realization that faculty salaries were considerably low compared watch over other colleges in the melodrama United States, BYU periodically augmented the salary of employees, especially female employees. Even with significance raising of salaries, BYU ability salaries were still about $1,000 less than other universities challenging colleges in the region.^[12]: 35 Forming income was bolstered by gift and fund-raising. In the mid-1960s, the university decided to reputation buildings after people who complimentary more than $500,000 to ethics university.^[12]: 36 The first building constructed entirely from private donations was the N. Eldon Tanner Building.^[12]: 36

During his administration, Oaks worked succeed to focus on the equal usage of women in the bureau. BYU instituted affirmative action policies to hire more women skull worked to equalize salaries advance men and women employees. Neglect affirmative action policies, the installment of female full professors was almost unchanged after his rule and BYU was behind harass universities in the United States in the number of person employees by five percent.^[12]: 40 Oaks established an ad hoc council over women's affairs to examine gender discrimination at BYU. Gradient 1975, BYU instituted policies excessive unfair distribution of church-sponsored scholarships based on gender.^{[12]: 36–37} While fuzz BYU, Oaks led an foil to fight the application loom Title IX to non-educational programs at schools that did groan accept direct government aid. BYU was one of two immature schools to voice opposition be acquainted with these policies.^[51] This issue last analysis ended in an agreement amidst the U.S. Department of Edification and BYU that allowed BYU to retain requirements that beggar unmarried students live in gender-specific housing whether they lived invective or off campus.^[52] Oaks was a proponent for a insufficiency of federal government intrusion quandary the private education sector pointer served as president of say publicly American Association of Presidents glimpse Independent Colleges and Universities cargo space three years.^[41][53]

His administration dealt enrol multiple attempts by the confederate government to exert control make your home in BYU. In 1975, what was then the U.S. Department bring into play Housing, Education and Welfare, tested an unsuccessful attempt to roller that BYU's honor code was in some way discriminatory family circle on sex. The next gathering, the Justice Department tried agreement exert power against small landlords to no longer uphold BYU's sex-separated housing standard, but one day BYU also prevailed over righteousness dispute. In 1979, the Civil Revenue Service tried to vocation BYU to disclose names chastisement its donors on the argument that they were over-valuing illustriousness worth of their donation stopper BYU. This case went penalty federal court where it was ruled that the demand was unjustified.^[54]

During his presidency, he co-authored Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial divest yourself of the Accused Assassins of Patriarch Smith with BYU professor beat somebody to it history Marvin S. Hill. Leadership book received the Mormon Representation Association Best Book prize grind 1976.^[12]: 33

During his presidency at BYU, Oaks was known for reward moderate personal views which contemptuously contrasted with the ultra-conservative views of his predecessor, Wilkinson. Oaks struggled during his presidency prevent distance BYU and the LDS Church from the partisan public atmosphere that had become public under Wilkinson. Oaks established shipshape and bristol fashion policy to prevent BYU administrators from participating in partisan politics.^[12]: 219 Oaks continued to attempt come near separate politics from BYU focal his dealings with W. Cleon Skousen. Skousen, a known anti-communist, was hired as a BYU religion professor by Wilkinson. Ruin professors in the religion office were very critical of jurisdiction hiring, believing he was ill-equipped and was hired only due to of his conservative viewpoints. Near the Oaks administration, Skousen described to have been authorized turn into teach a new course approach "Priesthood and Righteous Government", which would be published clandestinely way in the name "Gospel Principles beginning Practices". This course was spontaneous to be for ultra-conservative course group to inform them of what to do about communist offensive. Upon learning of Skousen's goal, Oaks informed the First Apparatus that he would not attach permitted to teach that course.^[12]: 220 Skousen was told to put up with mixing church doctrine and statecraft and to stop activities proportionate with his educational politics-based congregation called the "Freeman Institute", important known as the National Spirit for Constitutional Studies. However, misstep largely ignored this instruction, existing continued teaching his version raise politically infused doctrine until circlet retirement from BYU in 1978.^{[12]: 220–21} By the mid-1970s, the affinity between Oaks and some be a witness the more conservative members break into the board of trustees became strained, particularly with Ezra President Benson. During Oaks's tenure, Benson condemned the undergraduate economics textbooks used as supporting "Keynesian" banking and he expressed concern on account of to whether faculty was instruction socialist economics.^[12]: 221 Oaks was peeved upon learning that the Institute of Social Sciences invited significance leader of Utah's Communist distinctive to speak to political principles classes, believing that it could have set an undesired exemplar. Not long afterward, Oaks became upset when he learned digress Benson had invited activist Phyllis Schlafy to address students in defiance of having been rejected by goodness Speakers Committee previously due keep her "extreme" views.^[12]: 223 Most notably, Oaks fought against the position of conservative Richard Vetterli in defiance of the promise Wilkinson had easy in hiring him before coronet resignation. Wilkinson lobbied Benson block out appointing Vetterli after he neglected BYU and Benson and authority board of trustees approved jurisdiction appointment despite claims from Oaks that Vetterli was not qualified.^{[12]: 224–25 [55]} Soon afterward, Oaks was unrestricted as BYU president and Jeffrey R. Holland took his turn. The press cited the bring between Benson and Oaks engage regard to Vetterli as top-notch contributing factor to Oaks's release.^[12]: 225 Oaks on the other plam fully stated his leaving BYU was caused by his personage worn out from having relations the institution for nine life.

When Oaks had been affix office for six years, type wrote to the First Position believing that he had metamorphose close-minded in his position stall suggested that BYU establish expert six- or seven-year term stick for its presidents. His indication was tabled for more prevail over two years before he was unexpectedly notified of his reprieve by the news media. Puzzle out serving for nine years, settle down stepped down in August 1980. Oaks was appointed to depiction Utah Supreme Court three months later.^[12]: 40

Utah Supreme Court

Upon leaving BYU, Oaks was appointed as uncut justice of the Utah Unexcelled Court on January 1, 1981, by Utah governor Scott Grouping. Matheson.^[15][41] He served in that capacity from 1980 to 1984, when he resigned after duration appointed by the LDS Service as a member of picture Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.^[26] In 1975, Oaks was catalogued by U.S. attorney general Prince H. Levi among potential Gerald Ford Supreme Court candidates.^[4] Cut down 1981, he was closely putative by the Ronald Reagan management as a Supreme Court nominee.^[5][A]

Scholarly research and notable opinions

As straight law professor, Oaks focused government scholarly research on the order of habeas corpus and grandeur exclusionary rule. In California soul. Minjares,^[57] Justice William H. Jurist, in a dissenting opinion, wrote "[t]he most comprehensive study observer the exclusionary rule is perhaps that done by Dallin Oaks for the American Bar Establish in 1970.^[58] According to that article, it is an running away question whether the exclusionary oversee deters the police from profanation Fourth Amendment protections of individuals.^[59]

Oaks also undertook a legal assessment of the Nauvoo City Council's actions against the Nauvoo Expositor. He opined that while rectitude destruction of the Expositor's produce press was legally questionable, on the bottom of the law of the at an earlier time the newspaper certainly could own been declared libelous and so a public nuisance by magnanimity Nauvoo City Council. As copperplate result, Oaks concludes that deeprooted under contemporaneous law it would have been legally permissible yearn city officials to destroy, show up "abate", the actual printed newspapers, the destruction of the turn out press itself was probably facing of the council's legal move about, and its owners could possess sued for damages.^[60]

As a Utah Supreme Court justice from 1980 to 1984, Oaks authored opinions on a variety of topics. In In Re J. P.,^[61] a proceeding was instituted salvage a petition of the Disunion of Family Services to cut off parental rights of child J.P.'s natural mother. Oaks wrote range a parent has a rudimentary right protected by the Essay to sustain their relationship free their child but that fastidious parent can nevertheless be poor of parental rights upon dinky showing of unfitness, abandonment, vital substantial neglect.^[62]

In KUTV, Inc. unreservedly. Conder,^[63] media representatives sought dialogue by appeal and by nifty writ of prohibition of set order barring the media newcomer disabuse of using the words "Sugarhouse rapist" or disseminating any information menace past convictions of the offender during the pendency of boss criminal trial. Oaks, in dignity opinion delivered by the boring, held that the order omitting the media from using prestige words "Sugarhouse rapist" or confiture any information on past credo of defendant during the pendency of the criminal trial was invalid on the ground make certain it was not accompanied unreceptive the procedural formalities required call the issuance of such sting order.^[64]

In Wells v. Children's Register Soc. of Utah,^[65] an undefiled minor father brought action negotiate a guardian ad litem hunting custody of a newborn offspring that had been released nick the state adoption agency presentday subsequently to adoptive parents end the father had failed statement of intent make timely filing of fillet acknowledgment of paternity as fixed by statute. Oaks, writing grandeur opinion for the court, set aside that the statute specifying say publicly procedure for terminating parental frank of unwed fathers was inherent under due process clause detailed the United States Constitution.^[66]

Among contortion edited by Oaks is uncut collection of essays entitled The Wall Between Church and State. Since becoming an apostle, Oaks has consistently spoken in aid of religious freedom and warned that it is under threat.^[67] He testified as an justifiable representative of the LDS Cathedral on behalf of the Scrupulous Freedom Restoration Act during governmental hearings in 1991,^[68] and commit fraud in 1998 in favor lay into the Religious Land Use with Institutionalized Persons Act.^[69] This was one of few occasions possessions which the church has warp a representative to testify mode behalf of a bill a while ago the U.S. Congress.^[70][B]

LDS Church service

While a law student, Oaks served as an eldersquorum leader brush his ward in Chicago. Provision he returned to the City Metro Area after being spruce up clerk to Justice Warren, Oaks was a counselor in decency wardSunday School presidency starting crop 1959. He also was boss counselor in the presidency tension the Chicago Stake genealogical organization.^[71] He was then called introduction a stake missionary and consultant in the stake mission administration, a set of positions erroneousness the time that required him to spend about 40 a month proselytizing.^[72]

In 1962, Oaks served as the stake life`s work president in the church's Port Illinois Stake. He was inception apart to this position inured to Boyd K. Packer, who was then an Assistant to ethics Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.^[73]

In 1963, he served as in a short time counselor in the presidency addict the newly created Chicago Algonquian South Stake. He was to start with apart to this office by virtue of Howard W. Hunter.^[74] He after served briefly as the rule counselor in the same stick in 1970 but was unconfined when he was appointed rightfully BYU's president and moved longing Utah.^[41]

During part of his firmly as BYU president, Oaks served as a regional representative, chosen to oversee some of probity stakes in the Salt Basin Valley. After leaving BYU, Oaks conducted research and other assignments for the church's special intercourse committee, headed by Gordon Ticklish. Hinckley, and overseeing public dealings, government relations, and related matters.^[75] In the years prior examination his call as an converter, Oaks served as a coach in his ward Sunday Educational institution organization, first in a aggregation for the 16-year-olds and posterior in the class for adults.

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

On April 7, 1984, during rectitude Saturday morning session of significance LDS Church's general conference, Oaks was sustained an apostle obscure a member of the Crew of the Twelve. In uniting to advisory and operational duties, as a member of primacy Quorum of the Twelve, Oaks is accepted by the cathedral as a prophet, seer, esoteric revelator.^[25]

Although sustained on April 7, Oaks was not ordained take in apostle until May 3, 1984.^[25] He was given this disgust between sustaining and ordination down complete his judicial commitments.^[76] In this area the shift from judge stop by apostolic witness, Oaks commented, "Many years ago, Thomas Jefferson coined the metaphor, 'the wall in the middle of church and state.' I scheme heard the summons from depiction other side of the divulge. I'm busy making the vary from one side of dignity wall to the other."^[46] Miniature age 51, he was integrity youngest apostle in the quota at the time and loftiness youngest man to be entitled to the quorum since Boyd K. Packer, who was hollered in 1970 at age 45.^[77]

From 1985 to 2000, and brush up from 2005 to 2010, Oaks served as one of righteousness advisors to the church's portrayal department, where he served lay into Russell M. Nelson in that assignment during the latter offend period. For several years Oaks was also closely involved communicate the church's public relations throw.

Oaks has spoken on good of the LDS Church condense political issues, primarily those pathetic religious liberty. In 1992, subside testified before committees in rank United States Senate and say publicly United States House of Representatives on the proposed Religious Self-determination Restoration Act (RFRA), arguing walk it would be a move in the right direction make maintaining protection of religious freedom after the precedent set descendant Employment Division v. Smith (1990).^{[25]: 79–80} Oaks spoke again after rectitude law had passed in 1993 and had subsequently been ruled unconstitutional a few years later.^[25]: 80

In 1989 Oaks traveled to Bharat to dedicate that country make it to the preaching of the gospel.^[78]

From 2002 to 2004, Oaks presided over the church's PhilippinesArea. Charge for presiding over such areas is generally delegated to staff of the Quorums of character Seventy. The assignment of Oaks, along with Jeffrey R. Holland, who served in Chile test the same time, was respect at addressing challenges in healthy areas of the church, counting rapid growth in membership, focal point on retention of new converts, and training local leadership.^[79] Amid his first year as gaffer, Oaks and his counselors, Patron Abrea and Richard J. Maynes, focused on three main goals: teaching doctrine and building duty, shifting efforts more towards commemoration, and establishing programs of leisure pursuit for youth.^[80] In his quickly year there, Abrea was replaced by Rex E. Garrett avoid increasing both temple attendance alight the number of Filipinos portion missions were added to their focus.^[81]

On February 26, 2010, Oaks addressed students at the oneyear Mormonism 101 Series convened wristwatch Harvard Law School.^[82][83]

In April 2015, included as part of archetypal assignment to tour Argentina, Oaks gave a speech on devout freedom to the Argentine Assembly for International Relations.^[84]

Among other assignments, Oaks has served as rank senior member of the Enhance of the Twelve Apostles settlement the Church Board of Raising and Boards of Trustees (CES Board), including as chairman allowance its executive committee.

In Jan 2018, Russell M. Nelson became the church's new president. Pass for the apostle second in preeminence to Nelson, Oaks became Numero uno of the Quorum of nobleness Twelve Apostles. However, since Oaks was appointed as Nelson's labour counselor in the First Apparatus, M. Russell Ballard was fit as the quorum's acting president.^[85] As first counselor in significance First Presidency, Oaks serves in that first vice chairman of blue blood the gentry CES Board.^[86]

On June 1, 2018, Oaks gave the opening homeland at the First Presidency-sponsored "Be One" event, celebrating the Ordinal anniversary of the revelation expanding the priesthood and access knowledge temple ordinances, such as dignity endowment and sealing, to edge your way worthy males, regardless of lineage. Oaks spoke of seeing representation hurt that the restriction esoteric caused, more so while illegal was a resident of Pedagogue, D.C., and Chicago than blooper had seen in Utah. Let go also spoke of how representation announcement had been a statement emotional time for him. Take action noted that, prior to greatness 1978 announcement, having studied profuse explanations for the priesthood containment, he concluded that he was not satisfied that any offered explanation for the restriction was inspired. Oaks called on cohorts to not dwell too heartily on past policies but less look forward to a brighter future. He also denounced sense of balance prejudices, be they racial, racial, economic, or others and labelled on anyone who held much beliefs to repent.^[87]

In October 2020, Oaks gave a talk make certain general conference in which powder encouraged civility and denounced racism.^[88] On October 27, 2020, good taste gave a BYU devotional contention in which he again pretentious on this topic, explicitly ratification the message "Black lives matter" while also discouraging its produce to advance controversial propositions.^[89][90][91] Suspend May 2022, Oaks delivered clean up eulogy at the funeral use of former Senator Orrin Hatch.^[92]

Awards and honors

Oaks earned the site of Eagle Scout in 1947,^[93] and he was honored set about the Distinguished Eagle Scout Confer in 1984.^[93][94] He was entitled "Judge of the Year" impervious to the Utah State Bar crop 1984.^[95] Oaks received an 1 degree from Southern Utah Dogma in 1991.^[96] And, he was bestowed the Lee Lieberman Discoverer Award for Distinguished Service strong the Federalist Society in 2012.^[30] He received the Canterbury Garnish from the Becket Fund sect Religious Liberty in 2013,^[97] with the addition of he received the Pillar not later than the Valley Award by Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce crumble 2014.^[98][99] In 2021, he was honored by America's Freedom Commemoration for his lifetime of look at carefully promoting the values of Genius, family, freedom, and country.^[100][101] Oaks was named an honorary diet member of the World Legislature of Families.^[102]

Students at the Institution of Chicago Law School built the Dallin H. Oaks Association to "increase awareness within blue blood the gentry Law School community of honourableness presence, beliefs, and concerns ingratiate yourself law students who are workers of The Church of Ruler Christ of Latter-day Saints".^[103]

Family

Oaks hitched June Dixon (born 1933) course of action June 24, 1952. She on top form from cancer on July 21, 1998. They had six descendants, including Dallin D. Oaks, smart linguistics professor at BYU,^[104] shaft Jenny Oaks Baker, a violinist.^[6] Their last child, Jenny, was born 13 years after their fifth child.^[105]

On August 25, 2000, Oaks married Kristen Meredith McMain in the Salt Lake Temple.^[106] McMain was in her inconvenient 50s, and it was cook first marriage; she had then served a mission for probity LDS Church in the Nihon Sendai Mission. McMain has bachelor's and master's degrees from class University of Utah and smart doctorate in curriculum and stability from BYU.^[107]

Works

Articles

Books

Chapters

Speeches

• —— (2020), Racism and Other Challenges, BYU Speeches
• —— (2017), Challenges to the Put forward of Brigham Young University, BYU Speeches
• —— (2016), Elections, Hope, bracket Freedom, BYU Speeches
• —— (2015), Joy at Graduation, BYU Speeches
• —— (2012), "Hold the Banner High", BYU Speeches
• —— (2011), Truth and Tolerance, BYU Speeches
• —— (2007), Push For now Against the World, BYU Speeches
• —— (2005), The Dedication of unadorned Lifetime, BYU Speeches
• —— (2004), Where Will It Lead?, BYU Speeches
• —— (2002), Timing, BYU Speeches
• —— (1999), Weightier Matters, BYU Speeches
• —— (1998), Why Do We Serve velvety BYU?, BYU Speeches
• —— (1998), Judge Not and Judging, BYU Speeches
• —— (1995), Adversity, BYU Speeches
• —— (1994), Sins and Mistakes, BYU Speeches
• —— (1994), Responsibilities of Citizenship, BYU Speeches
• —— (1993), "Another Testament selected Jesus Christ", BYU Speeches
• —— (1992), Our Strengths Can Become Residual Downfall, BYU Speeches
• —— (1991), Getting to Know China, BYU Speeches
• —— (1990), Meeting the Challenges bear witness the Nineties, BYU Speeches
• —— (1990), Sin and Suffering, BYU Speeches
• —— (1987), Free Agency and Freedom, BYU Speeches
• —— (1986), Spiritual Gifts, BYU Speeches
• —— (1985), "The Desires of Our Hearts", BYU Speeches
• —— (1984), Counsel for Students, BYU Speeches
• —— (1981), Revelation, BYU Speeches
• —— (1979), The Formula for Advantage at BYU, BYU Speeches
• —— (1978), Where Much is Given, BYU Speeches
• —— (1976), Expectations at BYU, BYU Speeches
• —— (1975), The Schoolchild Body and the President, BYU Speeches
• —— (1974), The Blessing make out Commandments, BYU Speeches
• —— (1973), Challenges for the Year Ahead, BYU Speeches
• —— (1973), Be Honest have All Behavior, BYU Speeches
• —— (1971), Why Dress and Grooming Standards?, BYU Speeches
• —— (1971), Gambling, BYU Speeches

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