Keith K. Hilbig

Keith Karl Hilbig (born March 12, 1942) has been a general authority of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2001. Prior to becoming a general authority, he was general counsel for the LDS Church in Europe.

Hilbig was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father, Karl Herbert Hilbig, was an immigrant from Zwickau, Germany who had joined the LDS Church before immigrating to the United States.

As a young man, Hilbig served as a Mormon missionary in the LDS Church's Central German Mission. He married Susan Rae Logie in the Salt Lake Temple in 1967. They are the parents of six children.

Hilbig holds a bachelor's degree in European history from Princeton University and a law degree from Duke University. He also attended Brigham Young University for a semester after his mission. That is where he met his wife. Hilbig worked for a large law firm in the Los Angeles area of California and later had his own law practice.

In the LDS Church, Hilbig has been a bishop, stake president, seminary teacher, and a regional representative of the Twelve. From 1989 to 1992, he was the president of the church's Switzerland Zürich Mission. From 1995 to 2001, Hilbig was an area seventy. In April 2001, he became a general authority and a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He was transferred to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 2006. In 2008, he was a counselor to David S. Baxter in the presidency of the church's Pacific Area.

References

* [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=8611759235d0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Keith K. Hilbig Of the Seventy,”] "Ensign", May 2001, p. 106
*"Deseret Morning News 2008 Church Almanac" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2007) p. 46
*"Church News", October 6, 2001

External links

* [http://gapages.com/hilbikk1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Keith K. Hilbig]