Dean M. Davies
Dean Myron Davies is a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on October 3, 2020. He was released as first counselor to Bishop Gerald Caussé in the Presiding Bishopric where he had served since October 9, 2015. He had previously served as second counselor to Bishop Gary E. Stevenson since March 31, 2012.
At the time of his calling to the Presiding Bishopric, he was employed by the Church of Jesus Christ as the managing director of the Special Projects Department which oversees real estate, temple design and temple construction.
Bishop Davies graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Brigham Young University and completed advanced executive programs at Stanford and Northwestern Universities. He worked in executive positions in real estate investment, construction and management before becoming employed by the Church of Jesus Christ.
Community service has been a vital part of Bishop Davies’ life. He was a member of the San Francisco Mayor's Fiscal Advisory Committee, the Board of Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Board of Directors of Lancaster General Hospital and chairman of the finance committee.
Although Bishop Davies has been a counselor in three bishoprics, a high councilman five times, and a counselor in two stake presidencies, this is his first time as bishop. Other callings have included president of the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission, and president of the Pleasanton, California. and Danville, California, stakes. He served a full time mission in the Uruguay/Paraguay Mission, from 1970 to 1972.
In an article in the Church News, "Prepared to do Great Things," May 26, 2012, Bishop Davies said that he hadn’t planned to serve a mission as a young man, but in a dream he helped an unfamiliar silver-haired man and his wife who were having car troubles. In that dream, he understood that if he followed what the couple taught he would be blessed throughout his life. He began preparing for a mission right away.
Some months later, as he stepped off the plane in Montevideo, Uruguay, he recognized President Gardner H. Russell and his wife Dorothy as the couple in his dream. They helped him develop an abiding love of the gospel, and his mission became the anchor of his spiritual development.
He was born in Salt Lake City in 1951 and is married to Darla James. They have five children and 17 grandchildren.
