John S. Dinger

John S. Dinger is a graduate of the S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where he was an editor of the Utah Law Review. In addition to a juris doctorate, he holds degrees in political science and history from the University of Utah. He has published in the Journal of Mormon History, John Whitmer Historical Journal, Idaho Law Review, and Utah Law Review. His book, The Nauvoo High Council and City Council Minutes (Signature Books, 2011), won the Best Documentary Book Award from the Mormon History Association and the Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association. In 2013 he published Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon: The First Printed Edition Compared to the Manuscripts and to the Subsequent Major LDS English Printed Editions (Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2013). He is presently a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Ada County in Boise, Idaho and a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children taskforce.