Robert John Woodford (1936–2019)[1] is an expert on Joseph Smith and the Doctrine and Covenants.
He is one of the editors with the Joseph Smith Papers Project and along with Steven C. Harper and Robin Scott Jensen was a volume editor of The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Manuscript Revelations Books, Facsimile Edition that was published in 2009.
In the LDS Church he has served in many callings including as a Sunday School teacher and high councilor.
Woodford has a Ph.D. from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Bible and modern scripture.
[2][3] Woodford also wrote a 1975 BYU Studies article which was the first to investigate the life of Jesse Gause, a forgotten member of the First Presidency.