Michael A. Dunn Sustained as General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April 2021

Michael A. Dunn 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 had been serving as a member of the Twelfth Quorum of the Seventy in the Utah Area. He currently serves as president of the North America Southwest Area.

Dunn has held a number of Church callings. He served as a full-time missionary in the Hawaii Honolulu Mission and later as a counselor in a bishopric, a high councilor, a bishop, a stake president and a ward Young Men president. From 2014 to 2017, he presided over the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, a period of service in a different region of the world (Colossians 3:23).

Dunn received a bachelor of science degree in mass communications from the University of Utah in 1981. In 2008, he received a master of arts degree in communication, with an emphasis on film and new media, from the same university. From 1995 to 2010, he was president of Dunn Communications, Inc. In 2010, he was named general manager of KUED (PBS). At the time of his call as a General Authority Seventy, he was managing director of BYUtv and BYUradio.

Michael Austin Dunn was born in Tucson, Arizona, on March 5, 1958. He married Linda Virginia Poulson in 1980, and the couple are the parents of three children.

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