Jill Mulvay Derr

Who is Jill Mulvay Derr?

Jill Mulvay Derr was an American history professor at Brigham Young University and the director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, as well as the president of the Mormon History Association.

Derr was raised as Jill C. Mulvay in Salt Lake City. Some of her publications have been credited under her maiden name.

Derr is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Derr is married to C. Brooklyn Derr, and in the early 1985 they lived for a year in France, where Derr served as a counselor in the ward Relief Society presidency. The Derrs are the parents of four children.

Jill Mulvay Derr holds a bachelors degree from the University of Utah and an MA in teaching from Harvard University.