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Dr. Roger A. Hendrix is a business owner, management consultant, radio commentator, and educator.

Roger was born on December 12, 1944 in Alhambra California to Vera Lavon Nelson and Percy George Clifford. Vera was remarried to Fred Gooch Hendrix when Roger was four. He has one sister, Claudia Hendrix.

Roger contracted polio August 1952 and was left with a slight limp and a right leg smaller than the left leg. In ninth grade, Roger underwent major surgery on his right foot, correcting the effects of polio causing the foot from drawing up into a claw like condition. He graduated from Long Beach Millikan High School where he was a varsity swimmer and water polo player. He also was a student body office holder, head varsity yell king, a member of Varsity Club, and a member of the California Scholarship Federation.

He attended Long Beach City College in 1962, where he had parts in four college productions. In the summer of 1963, he was asked to be in the play La Ronde directed by David Emmes, co-founder of South Coast Repertory, in the Off Broadway Theatre in Long Beach California.

In 1964 Hendrix served a mission in northern Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Elder Richard G. Scott was his mission president. While there Roger served as a zone leader. In 1966 he returned home and graduated from California State University Long Beach in 1968 while majoring in Speech. He graduated with a master’s degree in educational psychology in 1970 from Brigham Young University, and a doctorate (Ed.D) in 1976 from the University of Southern California with Professor Earl V. Pullias serving as his advisor and dissertation chairman.

In 1967, Roger met and married Cheryl Fannin in the Los Angeles Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.. They have five children and sixteen grandchildren. The children are Rori, Amber, Roger Junior, Ryan, and Erin.

Roger was a teacher and administrator for the Church Education System for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1968 to 1983. He served under and with Dr. Gordon Mauss during that period. From 1983 to 1992 he became a management consultant focusing on strategic planning, and an award winning radio commentator. (6) And from 1992 to 1995 Roger and Cheryl were called by President Gordon B. Hinckley to be the mission president in the Chile Santiago South Mission.

Hendrix published a book "Leverage Point" with Gerald Lund in 1985. The story is based on true life experiences of Hendrix, colleagues, family, and personal acquiantances.

Before being called as a mission president, Hendrix also served as a counselor in a stake presidency, and as a bishop. In 1996 President Gordon B. Hinckley asked Roger to be a trustee and board member for church controlled Deseret Trust Company for eighteen years.(8) He also served on the advisory board for The American Red Cross in Washington D.C.(9)

Frederick Mark Gedicks and Roger Hendrix have published two books together about religious trends and cultural experiences. Democracy, Autonomy, and Values: Some Thoughts on Religion and Law in Modern America, was published in 1987.Frederick Mark Gedicks and Roger Hendrix, Democracy, Autonomy, and Values: Some Thoughts on Religion and Law in Modern America, 60 S. Cᴀʟ. L. Rᴇᴠ., 1579 (1987). Religious Experience in the Age of Digital Reproduction, was published in 2005.

Hendrix has authored four books and numerous articles and essays. He resumed his work as a management consultant in 1997 to 2017 and became a major investor (2007), and eventually CEO of Green Tea HP in 2022.

Hendrix was interviewed on a series of Mormon Stories podcasts covering his his philosophy on a series of social issues.(11) Latter, he was interviewed on the future of Mormonism.