Noel Beldon Reynolds (born 1942) is an American political scientist and an emeritus professor of political science at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he has also served as an associate academic vice president and as director for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS).
[3] He also coedited Religious Liberty in Western Thought with Cole Durham Jr., as well as the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992 by Macmillan.
[8] Reynolds edited On the History of the Idea of Law authored by Shirley Robin Letwin, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.
[9] In 2005, BYU and FARMS published Early Christians in Disarray: Conterporary LDS Perspectives on the Apostasy edited by Reynolds.
At age 16 she entered BYU, where she met Noel B. Reynolds, whom she married four years later in the Los Angeles Temple.
She was the first counselor to Coleen K. Menlove in the LDS Church's Primary General Presidency from October 1999 until April 2005.
She has served in the various LDS Church organizations as a scouting leader, early-morning seminary teacher, and on the steering committee for BYU's annual women's conference.