Henry Johnson Eyring became the 17th president of Brigham Young University-Idaho in April 2017. President Eyring and his family have had a long association with Rexburg and BYU-Idaho. He first came to the area as a child when his father, President Henry B. Eyring, served as president of Ricks College. He returned to Rexburg and the relatively new BYU-Idaho in 2006. Over the ensuing 14 years at the university, he has served as associate academic vice president over Online Learning, advancement vice president, and academic vice president. Prior to his work at BYU-Idaho, President Eyring worked as a strategy consultant at Monitor. Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as MBA director at Brigham Young University in Provo. President Eyring has served in various callings in the Church, including as a full-time missionary in the Japan Nagoya Mission, bishop, mission president in the Japan Tokyo North Mission, and president of the Rexburg Idaho YSA 6th Stake. President Eyring earned a bachelor’s degree in geology, a master’s degree in business administration, and a juris doctorate from BYU. While attending BYU, he married his high school sweetheart, Kelly Ann Child. Sister Eyring graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in English. She has served as a stake
Young Women president and Primary president. President Eyring currently serves as an Area Seventy, and Sister Eyring teaches Sunday School. President and Sister Eyring are the parents of five children. Their three oldest children are graduates of BYU-Idaho, and their two younger children live at home. They also have four grandchildren. Watch here:
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