Conference sustains the first general authority of black African descent, Second Quorum of the Seventy's Helvecio Martins of Brazil (who is released in 1995). Chieko Nishimura Okazaki is sustained as the first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, the first non-Caucasian member of an auxiliary presidency in Mormon history.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
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