- For the past 32 years, new church presidents have retained the previous president's counselors in the First Presidency.
- President Dallin H. Oaks is the first former Brigham Young University president to be in the First Presidency.
- President Oaks has dedicated one LDS temple (Provo City Center). President Henry B. Eyring has dedicated or re-dedicated 12 temples. President Russell M. Nelson has dedicated two temples.
- President Oaks is a native of Provo.
- Both President Eyring and President Nelson attended the University of Utah, although President Nelson received an honorary BYU degree in 1970.
- The amount of time between President Thomas S. Monson's passing and the setting apart of a new church president was the longest since 1889, when 20 months passed between the death of President John Taylor and the setting apart of President Wilford Woodruff.
- President Oaks and President Nelson were called as apostles at the same time, although President Oaks was ordained several weeks later due to a work assignment outside of Utah.