Merrill J. Bateman

Merrill J. Bateman, former president of BYU, is now a General Authority of the Mormon Church.

Merrill J. Bateman has served as President of Brigham Young University, Presiding Bishop, General Sunday School President and as a member of both the first and second quorums of the seventy. He currently serves as one of the Presidency of the Seventy.

Prior to his call as a General Authority, Elder Bateman worked in the chocolate industry and was the founding dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He and his wife Marilyn, whom he married in 1959, have seven children.