Dallin H. Oaks
Dallin H. Oaks once explained a change of career with a metaphor borrowed from Thomas Jefferson. Standing at the edge of a courtroom life, he said: "Many years ago, Thomas Jefferson coined the metaphor, 'the wall between church and state.' I have heard the summons from the other side of the wall. I'm busy making the transition from one side of the wall to the other." The speaker was a Utah Supreme Court justice becoming an apostle. Today he leads the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often called the LDS Church. Before that he was a law clerk, a corporate litigator, a law professor and a university president. This documentary asks what a lawyer carries into a church, and what a church leader carries out of a courtroom. It also asks how a boy from Provo and Vernal, Utah, ended up on both sides of that wall.
In July 1932, Oaks's mother attended the unveiling of The Pioneer Mother, a sculpture by Cyrus Dallin, in Springville, Utah. She decided on the spot to name her first child after the artist, provided it was a son. On the 12th of August 1932, Dallin Harris Oaks was born in Provo, Utah, to Stella, born Harris, and Lloyd Edress Oaks. Through his mother he is a second great-grandnephew of Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon. Between the ages of two and eight, the family lived in Twin Falls, Idaho.
In 1940, when Oaks was seven, his father died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-seven. Stella then suffered an episode of mental illness and for a time could neither work nor attend school. Oaks and his two younger siblings went to live with their maternal grandparents in Payson, Utah. Losing one parent and temporarily losing the other left him struggling to concentrate in class.
By about age nine or ten he was back with his mother, who had taken a teaching post in Vernal, Utah. Stella went on to pursue a graduate degree at Columbia University. From about age ten to sixteen, the children spent each school year in Vernal and each summer in Payson. Stella later headed adult education for the Provo School District. In 1956 she became the first woman on the Provo City Council, and she served two terms. In 1958 she briefly acted as Provo's assistant mayor.
At twelve, Oaks landed his first job, sweeping floors at a radio repair shop in Vernal. He later worked as an engineer and announcer at two stations, KJAM in Vernal and KCSU in Provo. In the spring of 1948 he earned a first-class radio operator license. He was also an Eagle Scout at fourteen.
At Uintah High School in Vernal he played football, joined the debate team and played oboe in the band. When the family moved to Provo at the start of his eleventh-grade year, he chose Brigham Young High School because it was smaller than Provo High. He graduated in 1950. The next stop was the Provo campus of Brigham Young University.
At a high school basketball game during his freshman year at Brigham Young University, Oaks was working as a radio announcer. There he met June Dixon, then a senior at one of the schools. They dated for two years and married in 1952 in the Salt Lake Temple. Oaks studied accounting and graduated in 1954 with high honors. He did not serve a church mission, because his Utah National Guard service made a call-up for the Korean War possible.
In Chicago, a full-tuition National Honor Scholarship paid his way through law school at the University of Chicago. He became editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review and graduated in 1957 with a Juris Doctor, cum laude. From 1957 to 1958 he clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then joined the Chicago firm Kirkland & Ellis, where he had already worked a summer and a few months before his clerkship.
At Kirkland & Ellis he specialized in corporate litigation and began under Robert Bork. He was soon named one of the firm's principal lawyers. His main clients were Standard Oil of Indiana, B. F. Goodrich and Chemetron Corporation. In 1960 the family bought a home in Elmhurst, Illinois. According to historian Lavina Fielding Anderson, he was the first Kirkland & Ellis lawyer to represent an indigent party before the Illinois Supreme Court. It was also the first appellate argument of his career.
In 1961 he left the firm to teach at the University of Chicago Law School. Only six months later, in 1962, he became associate dean after dean Edward H. Levi was named university provost. He taught trust and estate law and gift taxation, and he worked with George Bogert on a new edition of a trusts casebook. He tried to win Supreme Court clerkships for students, including Rex E. Lee. He advised the school's legal aid clinic and argued that federal anti-poverty programs treated symptoms rather than causes. In the fall of 1964 he became a full professor.
His scholarship also reached into religion. In 1963 he edited The Wall Between Church and State, a book weighing the metaphor of that name. That December he published an article on the school prayer cases for lay readers in the church magazine Improvement Era. In 1966 he joined the founding editorial board of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and he resigned in early 1970.
In 1969 he chaired the university disciplinary committee. It held hearings for 160 students involved in a sit-in at the administration building. Oaks was physically attacked twice, and more than 100 students were suspended or expelled. In the first half of 1970 he took leave to serve as legal counsel to the Bill of Rights Committee of the Illinois Constitutional Convention, working closely with chair Elmer Gertz. From 1970 to 1971 he was executive director of the American Bar Foundation. A phone call from Utah ended his Chicago years.
On the 1st of August 1971, Oaks took office as the eighth president of Brigham Young University. Ernest L. Wilkinson had resigned, and Neal A. Maxwell, commissioner of the Church Educational System, formed a search committee with no particular candidate in mind. Both Wilkinson and University of Utah Vice President Jerry R. Anderson suggested Oaks. During his tenure the J. Reuben Clark Law School and the Graduate Business School were created, with Bruce C. Hafen closely assisting on the law school.
The numbers show a university growing, though more slowly than under his predecessor. Enrollment rose by twenty percent while average class size held at thirty-four. Library holdings reached 2 million volumes, and 22 percent of the faculty held doctorates. Building slowed from eleven new structures a year under Wilkinson to eight. Church appropriations climbed from $19.5 million to $76 million, about one-third of the university's income. Spending rose from $60 million to $240 million.
Faculty pay stayed stubbornly low. Even after periodic raises, particularly for female employees, salaries trailed neighboring institutions by about $1,000. Private giving helped. Since the mid-1960s the university had named buildings for anyone giving more than $500,000, and the first built entirely from private donations was the N. Eldon Tanner Building.
Oaks kept Robert K. Thomas and Ben E. Lewis as vice presidents, then pushed authority down to deans and department chairs. He created an elected Faculty Advisory Council, a three-tiered general education exam system and a three-semester calendar that ended the fall term before Christmas. He left student discipline under the Honor Code to the dean of students. He was well liked, a sharp contrast to the austere Wilkinson years. He also oversaw a large celebration of the university centennial.
Women's employment was a stated priority. He introduced affirmative action hiring, worked to equalize pay and formed an ad hoc committee on women's affairs to examine gender discrimination. In 1975 the university barred unfair distribution of church-sponsored scholarships by gender. Results were mixed: the number of female full professors barely moved, and the university stayed five percent behind other universities in female employees.
Oaks also fought federal reach into private education. He led resistance to applying Title IX to non-educational programs at schools receiving no direct government aid, fearing it would force mixed-gender student housing. BYU was one of two initial schools to object. An agreement with the U.S. Department of Education let it keep gender-specific housing for unmarried students, on or off campus. Oaks served three years as president of the American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Other clashes followed. In 1975 the Department of Housing, Education and Welfare failed to show that the honor code discriminated by sex. The next year the Justice Department pressed small landlords to drop sex-separated housing standards. In 1979 the Internal Revenue Service demanded donor names, claiming gifts were overvalued, and a federal court ruled the demand unjustified. BYU prevailed each time. Meanwhile Oaks and history professor Marvin S. Hill co-wrote Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith, which won the Mormon History Association Best Book prize in 1976.
W. Cleon Skousen, a fiery anti-communist and conspiracy theorist, had been hired as a religion professor under Wilkinson. Colleagues in the religion department thought him unqualified and believed his politics had won him the job. Oaks, a political moderate, set policies to keep BYU administrators out of partisan politics. He tried to loosen the grip of the partisan atmosphere Wilkinson had fostered.
Skousen claimed authority to teach a course called "Priesthood and Righteous Government," to be published quietly as "Gospel Principles and Practices." It aimed to tell ultra-conservative students what to do about supposed communist infiltration at BYU. When Oaks learned of it, he told the First Presidency the course would not be allowed. Skousen was ordered to stop mixing doctrine with politics and to end work for his Freeman Institute, now the National Center for Constitutional Studies. He largely ignored the order and kept teaching until he retired from BYU in 1978.
By the mid-1970s Oaks's relations with conservative board of trustees members had frayed, above all with Ezra Taft Benson, then president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Benson condemned the Keynesian economics in undergraduate textbooks and worried that faculty taught socialist ideas. Oaks was unhappy when the College of Social Sciences invited the leader of Utah's Communist party to address classes. He was equally upset when Benson invited activist Phyllis Schlafly after the speakers committee had rejected her for her "extreme" views.
Then came Richard Vetterli, a conservative candidate for a political science post whom Wilkinson had promised to hire. Oaks fought the hiring as unqualified. Wilkinson lobbied Benson, and Benson and the trustees approved Vetterli over Oaks's objection. Soon afterward Oaks was released and Jeffrey R. Holland took his place. The press named the Benson stand-off over Vetterli as a contributing factor.
Another episode has drawn criticism. Campus police at BYU routinely used undercover agents and a polygraph to investigate honor code violations, before and during Oaks's presidency. In 1975 the university began a program to reduce the number of alleged homosexuals on campus. It included interrogating men in fine arts and drama programs, cross-referencing license plates at gay bars with student plates and dorm searches without proper warrants. Asked by reporters, Oaks acknowledged the activities in general terms. BYU public relations said the program ended once he learned of it.
By his sixth year in office, Oaks had written to the First Presidency calling himself worn out and close-minded. He proposed a six- or seven-year term limit for BYU presidents. The proposal sat tabled for more than two years before he was told, unexpectedly, that his release had been approved. In August 1980 he stepped down after nine years, and a different kind of public office lay ahead.
In 1975, Attorney General Edward H. Levi placed Oaks on President Gerald Ford's short list for the U.S. Supreme Court. Oaks was one of eleven candidates. Ford crossed his name off early, noting in the margin that a member of the LDS Church might bring a "confirmation fight." Ford nominated John Paul Stevens, who sat on the court from 1975 to 2010.
The Reagan administration looked closely at Oaks in 1981. A high-ranking Justice Department official asked whether he wanted a vacant seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, often a stepping-stone to the Supreme Court. Oaks declined and recommended Antonin Scalia. Reagan appointed Scalia to that court in August 1982 and to the Supreme Court in 1986. Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to the open seat, keeping his campaign promise to name the first woman justice.
Oaks did reach a bench of his own. Utah governor Scott M. Matheson appointed him to the Utah Supreme Court, effective the 1st of January 1981. In In Re J. P., Oaks wrote that parents hold a constitutionally protected right to their relationship with a child. They can still lose it on a showing of unfitness, abandonment and substantial neglect. In KUTV, Inc. v. Conder, the court struck down an order barring media from using the phrase "Sugarhouse rapist" before a trial, because the order lacked required procedural formalities. In Wells v. Children's Aid Soc. of Utah, an unwed minor father sought custody after missing a statutory deadline to acknowledge paternity. Oaks wrote that the statute satisfied the due process clause of the United States Constitution.
His scholarship had already left a mark. He studied habeas corpus and the exclusionary rule, which bars illegally obtained evidence from court. In California v. Minjares, Justice William H. Rehnquist called his 1970 study for the American Bar Foundation "probably" the most comprehensive on the rule. Oaks also analyzed the Nauvoo City Council's action against the Nauvoo Expositor. He concluded that the council could lawfully have declared the paper a libelous nuisance and destroyed printed copies. Destroying the printing press, he judged, probably exceeded its authority and could have exposed the city to a damages suit.
In 1984 the Utah State Bar named him Judge of the Year. The same year he resigned from the court.
Years before 1984, Oaks served the church at a local level, often while in demanding jobs. In Chicago he was an elders quorum president, a Sunday School counselor and a counselor in the stake genealogical organization. In 1962 he became stake mission president, set apart by Boyd K. Packer, with duties that took about forty hours a month. In 1963 Howard W. Hunter set him apart as second counselor in the new Chicago Illinois South Stake. After leaving BYU, he researched for the church's special affairs committee, headed by Gordon B. Hinckley.
On the 7th of April 1984, during the Saturday morning session of general conference, Oaks was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was ordained on the 3rd of May 1984, which gave him time to finish his judicial work. At fifty-one he was the youngest apostle in the quorum. No one that young had joined since Boyd K. Packer in 1970 at forty-five. Every apostle ordained since has been older; the youngest, David A. Bednar, was fifty-two.
Assignments took him far from Utah. From 1985 to 2000 he advised the church's history department, and again from 2005 to 2010 alongside Russell M. Nelson. In 1989 he traveled to India to dedicate the country for the preaching of the gospel. From 2002 to 2004 he presided over the Philippines Area while Jeffrey R. Holland served in Chile. Both assignments addressed rapid growth, retention of new converts and training of local leaders. Oaks and his counselors, Angel Abrea and Richard J. Maynes, set three goals. They were teaching doctrine and building faith, shifting toward retention, and establishing activity programs for youth.
In those years his family changed. He and June had six children, among them Dallin D. Oaks, a linguistics professor at BYU, and violinist Jenny Oaks Baker. Their last child was born thirteen years after their fifth. June died of cancer in 1998 at sixty-five. In 2000 Oaks married Kristen Meredith McMain in the Salt Lake Temple. She was in her early fifties, it was her first marriage, and she had served a mission in Japan Sendai. As of 2025 he had 29 grandchildren, 73 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
Religious liberty became his signature public subject. In the early 1990s he testified for the proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, responding to the 1990 ruling in Employment Division v. Smith. The law passed in 1993 and was ruled unconstitutional a few years later. In 1998 he testified for the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The church rarely sends a representative to testify for a bill in Congress. He spoke at Harvard Law School's Mormonism 101 series on the 26th of February 2010. In April 2015 he addressed the Argentine Council for International Relations. The Becket Fund gave him its Canterbury Medal in 2013.
In January 2018, Russell M. Nelson became church president. Oaks, second in seniority, would normally have led the Quorum of the Twelve. Instead Nelson chose him as first counselor in the First Presidency, so M. Russell Ballard became the quorum's acting president. On the 1st of June 2018, Oaks gave the opening address at the "Be One" event. It marked forty years since the revelation extending priesthood and temple ordinances to all worthy males regardless of race.
He spoke of seeing the hurt the restriction caused, more so in Washington, D.C., and Chicago than in Utah. He described the 1978 announcement as a very emotional time. He said he had studied the explanations offered and was not satisfied that any of them was inspired. He urged listeners not to dwell on past policies. He denounced prejudice of every kind and called on anyone holding it to repent.
In October 2020, at general conference, he encouraged civility and denounced racism. On the 27th of October 2020, in a BYU devotional, he endorsed the message "Black Lives Matter" while discouraging its use to advance controversial propositions. In May 2022 he delivered the eulogy at the funeral of former Senator Orrin Hatch.
On the 14th of October 2025, following Nelson's death, Oaks was appointed the church's eighteenth president. He chose Henry B. Eyring as first counselor and D. Todd Christofferson as second counselor. Scholars weighed in. Religion scholar Taylor G. Petrey said Oaks believes the church flourishes in a culture broadly compatible with its values, and that he seeks to shape society rather than adapt the church. Petrey added that "Fairness for all was a major slogan and initiative he undertook." Historian Patrick Q. Mason said unity is a top priority. Historian Benjamin Park predicted a "culmination of trends already in motion rather than a redirection."
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Dallin H. Oaks is an American religious leader and former jurist who became the eighteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the 14th of October 2025. He was born on the 12th of August 1932 in Provo, Utah.
When was Dallin H. Oaks called as an apostle?
Dallin H. Oaks was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on the 7th of April 1984 and ordained on the 3rd of May 1984. At age fifty-one he was the youngest apostle in the quorum.
What was Dallin H. Oaks's career before he became a church leader?
Dallin H. Oaks clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren, practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis, and taught at the University of Chicago Law School. He then served as president of Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1980 and as a Utah Supreme Court justice.
Was Dallin H. Oaks considered for the U.S. Supreme Court?
Yes, Dallin H. Oaks was considered twice. Gerald Ford's short list included him in 1975, and Ronald Reagan's administration weighed him in 1981. Ford nominated John Paul Stevens and Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor.
What did Dallin H. Oaks do as president of Brigham Young University?
Dallin H. Oaks was BYU's eighth president, serving from the 1st of August 1971 to August 1980. He oversaw creation of the J. Reuben Clark Law School and the Graduate Business School, and enrollment grew twenty percent.
What is Dallin H. Oaks's position on religious freedom?
Dallin H. Oaks has consistently spoken in favor of religious freedom and warned that it is under threat. He testified for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in the early 1990s and for the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in 1998.
Who are Dallin H. Oaks's counselors in the First Presidency?
Dallin H. Oaks selected Henry B. Eyring as first counselor and D. Todd Christofferson as second counselor. The reconstituted First Presidency followed Russell M. Nelson's death in 2025.
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- 66681 P.2d 199 (Utah 1984).
- 67Wells v. Children's Aid of Soc. of Utah, 681 P.2d 199 (Utah 1984)Dallin Harris Oaks — Free Law Project
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- 69No Man's Land: The Place of Latter-day Saints in the Culture WarFrederick M. Gedicks — 1999
- 70Statement Before the Senate Committee on the JudiciaryDallin H. Oaks — J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU — Spring 1998
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- 128JournalBYU and Government ControlsDallin H. Oaks — August 1977
- 129JournalTribute to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.Dallin H. Oaks — 1982
- 130Trust In His Promises - A Message for WomenDallin H. Oaks — Deseret Book — 2014
- 131Life's Lessons Learned: Personal ReflectionsDallin H. Oaks — Deseret Book — 2011
- 132With Full Purpose of HeartDallin H. Oaks — Deseret Book — 2002
- 133His Holy NameDallin H. Oaks — Bookcraft — 1998
- 134The Lord's WayDallin H. Oaks — Deseret Book — 1991
- 135Pure In HeartDallin H. Oaks — Bookcraft — 1988
- 136Trust Doctrines in Church ControversiesDallin H. Oaks — Mercer University Press — 1984
- 137Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph SmithDallin H. Oaks et al. — University of Illinois Press — 1975
- 138A Criminal Justice System and the Indigent: A Study of Chicago and Cook CountyDallin H. Oaks et al. — University of Chicago Press — 1968
- 139BookThe Wall Between Church and StateUniversity of Chicago Press — 1963
- 140The effects of Griffin v. Illinois on the States' administration of the criminal lawDallin H. Oaks — Council of State Governments — 1957