Patriotic Service

Elder Matthew S. Holland of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be the keynote speaker. Elder Holland is a gifted speaker and scholar, having earned a PhD in political science with a focus on early American political thought at Duke University and as a former James Madison Fellow at Princeton University. 

Prior to his full-time church service, Elder Holland was an associate professor in political science at BYU in Provo, where he started and completed his undergraduate studies. In 2009, Elder Holland was appointed as the sixth president of Utah Valley University, an office he held until 2018 when he and his wife, Paige, were called to preside over the North Carolina Raleigh Mission and then to serve as a member of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.