Leader Biography

Sister Linda K. Burton

Sister Linda K. Burton was serving as a member of the Relief Society general board when she received her call to serve as the organization’s president at the April 2012 general conference. In her Church assignments, she spent three years serving with her husband as he presided over the Korea Seoul West Mission. They returned from Korea in 2010. She has served on the Primary general board and in various callings in the Young Women, Primary and Sunday School and as a seminary teacher.

She studied elementary education at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and is married to Craig P. Burton. They have six children and 19 grandchildren.

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