The Life of Neil L. Andersen

Neil Linden Andersen is a a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Elder Andersen has been serving as a General Authority of the Church since 1993. On April 3 in 1993 he was sustained a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and in 2005 he was assigned to serve in the Presidency of the Seventy. Elder Andersen was sustained as an Apostle on April 4, 2009.

Andersen was born in Logan, Utah, on August 9, 1951, and was raised in Pocatello, Idaho. As a young man, he served a full-time mission in France. After his mission, he graduated from Brigham Young University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He then moved to Tampa, Florida, his wife’s hometown. He lived and worked in Tampa as the vice president of the Morton Plant Health System. In the Church, Andersen served as a member of a stake High Council. He also served as a counselor in a stake presidency, and as a stake president in Tampa. Between 1989 and 1992, Andersen was president of the France Bordeaux Mission.

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