Ronald A. Rasband
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| Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | |
| October 3, 2015 | |
| LDS Church Apostle | |
| October 8, 2015 | |
| Reason | Death of L. Tom Perry |
| Presidency of the Seventy | |
| August 15, 2005 – October 3, 2015 | |
| End reason | Called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
| First Quorum of the Seventy | |
| April 1, 2000 – October 3, 2015 | |
| End reason | Called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ronald Anderson Rasband February 6, 1951 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Melanie Twitchell |
| Children | 5 |
Ronald Anderson Rasband (born February 6, 1951) is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He has been a general authority of the church since 2000. Currently, he is the thirteenth most senior apostle in the church.
Rasband was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Rulon Hawkins Rasband and Verda Anderson. He graduated from Olympus High School and later served as a Mormon missionary in the Eastern States Mission. The mission was headquartered in New York City and encompassed the whole New York Metro area, while also stretching into western New York and Pennsylvania. He spent much of his mission assigned to areas of the city mainly consisting of coop apartments. Rasband studied at the University of Utah.
After Rasband returned from his mission, he married Melanie Twitchell in 1973 and they are the parents of five children.
In 1976, Rasband joined the Huntsman Container Corporation as a sales representative. This company would later be sold to Keyes Fibre Company. As of 1982, Rasband was living in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He was recruited to join the new Huntsman Chemical Corporation by Jon Huntsman, Sr. In 1987, Rasband was appointed president and chief operating officer of Huntsman Chemical. Rasband was later a member of the corporation's board of directors.
Rasband served as a member of the high council in the University of Utah 1st Stake from 1987 to 1989. He was bishop of the University of Utah 10th Ward from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997 he was a member of the church's Pioneer Sesquicentennial Committee. In 1996, Rasband was called to return to the area where he had been a missionary, to serve as president of New York New York North Mission. The mission's geographic area not only included Manhattan and the Bronx, but also stretched upriver to the area of West Point, as well as the far western portion of Connecticut. One of his initiatives was to have missionaries serve as volunteers at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, in order to make the missionaries more visible.
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