Don R. Clarke

Don R. Clarke

Second Quorum of the Seventy
April 1, 2006 (2006-04-01) – April 2, 2011 (2011-04-02)
End reason	Transferred to First Quorum of the Seventy

First Quorum of the Seventy
April 2, 2011 (2011-04-02)

Personal details
Born	Don Ray Clarke (1945-12-11) December 11, 1945 Rexburg, Idaho, United States

Don Ray Clarke (born December 11, 1945) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2006.

Although he began his career with Ford Motor Company, Clarke spent most of his career as an executive in retail companies. By the mid-1980s he was serving as chairman of May Department Store's Venture operation.^[1] He was chairman and CEO of Caldor Corporation from 1986 to 1998, both before and after it split from May Department Stores in 1989.^[2] Clarke then returned to work for May as president of Lord & Taylor.^[2]^[3] Clarke also served as a volunteer professor of business at Southern Virginia University and was involved with Ascend Humanitarian Alliance in beginning microcredit operations in Bolivia.^[4] Clark also served as an advisor on finances to Rodney K. Smith, president of Southern Virginia University.

Clarke has served in the LDS Church as a bishop, high councilor, Stake Young Men president and stake president. He was president of the Bolivia Santa Cruz Mission from 2001 to 2004.^[5]

Clarke became an LDS Church general authority and member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in 2006. In 2011, he was transferred to the First Quorum of the Seventy. Clarke served first as a counselor and then, from 2007 to 2011, as president of the church's Central America Area. While in this position, he presided at the ground-breaking ceremony for the San Salvador El Salvador Temple^[6] and conducted the ground-breaking ceremony for the Quetzaltenango Guatemala Temple.^[7]

Clarke and his wife, Mary Ann Jackson, were married in 1970 and they are the parents of six children.

Notes

Emeritus general authorities¹ of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Abrea Amado Aoyagi Backman Banks Bateman Bradford Brewerton Burton² Busche Carlson Carmack Child Christensen D.R. Clarke J.R. Clarke Coleman Cook Condie Dellenbach Dickson Didier Edgley² Featherstone Groberg Hafen Hammond Hansen Hinckley Howard J. Jensen M. Jensen D. Johnson Johnson Kendrick Kerr Kikuchi Koelliker Kofford Larsen Madsen Mazzagardi McMullin² Mickelsen Morrison Neuenschwander Pace Paramore Pinegar Porter Pratt Rector Richards Samuelson Tenorio Tingey Viñas Walker Watson Wells Wickman

1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the Presiding Bishopric did not serve as a Seventy during their time as a general authority.

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