Elder Quentin L. Cook, born on October 8, 1940, in Logan, Utah, and raised in Boise, Idaho, where he excelled in high school athletics as quarterback on the football team, earned all-region honors in basketball, served as senior class president, and participated in debate, is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A pivotal moment in his youth occurred at age 15 when his older brother Joe contemplated pursuing medical school. He served a mission for the Church in England and Belgium from 1960 to 1962, then earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a Juris Doctor in 1966 from Stanford University and Stanford Law School, respectively. Admitted to the California bar in 1967, he built a successful career as a corporate lawyer, becoming managing partner at a San Francisco firm, and later served as vice president of a California bank and president of a health care system. Married to Mary Gaddie since 1963, they have three children. Prior to his full-time church leadership, Cook held positions as bishop, stake president, and area authority seventy. He was called as a general authority in April 1996, serving in the Second Quorum of the Seventy, First Quorum of the Seventy, and Presidency of the Seventy before being sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 6, 2007. He is a prominent leader and advocate for religious liberty and interfaith cooperation, recognized for his pastoral, administrative, and legal expertise, often speaking on Christlike compassion, social media use, and righteous living in BYU speeches and worldwide firesides.