Background
Ringwood was born in Provo, Utah, to Sharon Lee and Howard Lee Ringwood.
Ringwood was born in Provo, Utah, to Sharon Lee and Howard Lee Ringwood.
Brigham Young University.
At the time, Howard was a football player for Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University). Ringwood was raised in Salt Lake City and then went to Brigham Young University on a leadership scholarship. After his mission, Ringwood returned to Brigham Young University where he earned a bachelor"s degree in accounting.
The Ringwoods are the parents of five children.
Prior to becoming a general authority, Ringwood was a businessman who spent 14 years as a vice president with Huntsman Chemical Corporation, living in Houston, Virginia Beach and Australia. In 2000, he left Huntsman Chemical and returned to Salt Lake City where he served as president of Bear Creek Foods, president of Lofthouse Foods, and the chief operating officer of Close To My Heart, a scrapbooking company.
In 2011, he was assigned as a counselor in the presidency of the church"s Asia North Area and served as the area president from 2012 to 2015.
In April 2009, Ringwood became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, a full-time ecclesiastical position.