Kevin J Worthen is one of the most popular and richest Priest who was born on April 15, 1956 in East Carbon, East Carbon, United States. Kevin J Worthen (born April 15, 1956) is the 13th and current president of Brigham Young University (BYU). He also serves as an area seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Worthen served previously at BYU as the Advancement Vice President and as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCL).
In 1987, Worthen returned to BYU as a member of the JRCL’s faculty and served as its dean from 2004 to 2008. As a Fulbright Scholar, he also spent a year working as a visiting instructor at University of Chile Law School in 1994. Worthen is an expert in American Indian law. His theory of cultural and ethnic assimilation draws on the history of indigenous groups and posits that since traditional “assimilation” is impossible, governments should work with indigenous groups as associational groups. Worthen was a 1995 contributor to Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, and served as vice-chair of the Utah Constitution Revision Commission from 2001 to 2003. While working for BYU, Worthen has served as faculty athletic representative to the NCAA for four years and as chair of the University Athletic Advisory Council from 1992 to 2000. He has also been the Hugh W. Colton professor at BYU.
In April 2010, Worthen became an area seventy in the LDS Church. Worthen served previously in the church as a bishop and as president of the Provo Utah Sharon East Stake from 2007 to 2010.
On March 11, 2014, Henry B. Eyring, First Vice Chairman of the BYU Board of Trustees announced that effective May 1, 2014, Worthen would succeed Cecil O. Samuelson as the president of BYU. Worthen was officially inaugurated as BYU’s 13th president September 9, 2014, in a special devotional assembly. Eyring gave the installation charge and spoke at the event. Other members of the board were also in attendance, along with former BYU presidents and presidents of other universities.
In 1982, Worthen graduated summa cum laude from BYU’s JRCL at the top of his class. He earned the distinction of Order of the Coif. Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for Associate Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. He practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona from 1984 to 1987 with the law firm of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon. While practicing law in Arizona, Worthen found that he was very interested in the history of laws, leading him to consider teaching law.
