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Effective August 1, 2025, the Philippines Area will be led by Elder Carlos G. Revillo Jr. (middle) as President, Elder Chi Hong (Sam) Wong (left) as the First Counselor, and Elder William K. Jackson (right) as the Second Counselor.2025 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the 2025–2026 area leadership assignments for the Church, including a new counselor in the Philippines Area Presidency.
Effective August 1, 2025, Elder William K. Jackson will serve as Second Counselor in the Philippines Area Presidency. He will join Elder Carlos G. Revillo Jr., Area President, and Elder Chi Hong Wong, First Counselor. Elder Jackson will succeed Elder Michael B. Strong, who has been assigned to a new role.
Elder Jackson was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on April 4, 2020. At the time of his call, he was serving as a bishop. He previously served as an Area Seventy and as a member of the Third and Eighth Quorums of the Seventy in the Asia and Australia/Pacific Areas from 2003 to 2009.
He has served at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, as an Assistant Executive Director in the Missionary Department. He also chaired the Church’s Missionary Health Services and Medical Advisory Committee.
Elder Jackson has held various Church assignments, including serving as a full-time missionary in the Bolivia La Paz Mission and as president of the India New Delhi Mission from 2009 to 2012.
He studied at Brigham Young University and later earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1983. He completed his medical residency at McKay-Dee Hospital in Utah and became a certified family physician.
For 26 years, he lived and worked overseas with his family, serving as a regional medical officer for the United States State Department and as a medical doctor for the U.S. Air Force. At the time of his call as a General Authority, he was serving as the medical director of Valley Family Health Care.
Elder Jackson was born on March 29, 1956, in Washington, D.C. He married Ann Kesler in 1977. They are the parents of eight children.