From Deseret News archives:
Some important events in the life of President James E. Faust
1937: Graduated from Granite High School
1937-39 and 1945-48: Attended University of Utah, receiving bachelor's of arts and juris doctorate degrees
1939-1942: Served a mission to Brazil
April 21, 1943: Married Ruth Wright in the Salt Lake Temple
1942-1945: Served in the Air Corps, discharged as a first lieutenant
Dec. 14, 1947: Sustained as a high councilor in the Big Cottonwood Stake
Jan. 16, 1949: Sustained as first counselor in the Cottonwood Ward bishopric
1949-51: Served in the Utah House of Representatives
May 8, 1949: Sustained as bishop of the Big Cottonwood Ward
May 29, 1955: Sustained as second counselor in the Cottonwood Stake presidency
March 18, 1956: Sustained as Cottonwood Stake president
May 31, 1962: Elected president of the Utah State Bar
Dec. 14, 1968: Called as a regional representative
January 1970: Appointed to the Deseret News board of directors
Oct. 6, 1972: Sustained as an assistant to the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church
April 20, 1975: Inducted into the Granite High School Hall of Fame
Oct. 1, 1976: Sustained to the presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy
September 1978: Named to head Utah's Friendship Force travel program
Sept. 30, 1978: Sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve
March 12, 1995: Set apart as second counselor to LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley
June 29, 1995: Honored by the Utah State Bar with the Distinguished Lawyer Emeritus Award.
March 2, 1996: Received a medal from Utah Arts Council for contributions to community service
June 26, 1996: Received the Minuteman Award from the Utah National Guard
Aug. 14, 1997: Received an honorary doctorate in Christian service from Brigham Young University
April 27, 1998: Became an honorary citizen of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a City Hall ceremony
May 10, 2002: Spoke at the University of Utah commencement and received an honorary degree
Feb. 28, 2003: Became the first recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the J. Reuben Clark Law Society
March 16, 2004: Received a humanitarian award from the Utah Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
March 22, 2006: Received the 2006 Distinguished Utahn of the Year honor from the BYU Management Society
Sept. 21, 2006: Received the Utah State Bar's Lifetime Service to the Bar Award
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