Elder Andersen received both a bachelor’s degree in business management in 1973 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1976 from Brigham Young University. He was a managing partner of Andersen Investments from 1979 until his call as a General Authority. Wilford Andersen was born in Mesa, Arizona, on August 22, 1949. He married Kathleen Bennion in April 1975. They are the parents of nine children and currently reside in Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic. Elder Wilford W. Andersen was sustained a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 4, 2009, at age 59. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a member of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventy in the North America Southwest Area.