Lorenzo Hoopes (November 5, 1913 – September 21, 2012)[1] was an American business executive, government bureaucrat, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints official.
He took a leave of absence from Safeway in 1953, during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, to serve as executive assistant to United States Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson.
Hoopes grew up in Brigham City, Utah and graduated from Box Elder High School.
He earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and did advanced management training at the Harvard Business School.
As of January 2010, Hoopes was head of the Paramount Theatre Board in Oakland, California.