Eccles is the son of Spencer Stoddard Eccles and Pauline Hope Fox and the grandson of Ellen Stoddard and
David Eccles, a Utah
banker and
industrialist. He earned a
Bachelor of Science in
finance in 1956 from the
University of Utah, where he was also a member of
Beta Theta Pi, and a
master of business administration in 1958 from
Columbia University School of Business. Eccles is the nephew of both
George S. Eccles and
Marriner Stoddard Eccles. In addition to his role at First Security, Eccles has also been a
director of the
Union Pacific Railroad,
Intermountain Health Care, the
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the National Chamber of Commerce, the
ZCMI Corporation, the Anderson Lumber Company,
Amalgamated Sugar, the Alta Ski Corporation, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, and the National Parks Foundation. He was a member of the three-person executive committee of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee and, in recognition of his critical contribution to the
2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake, was appointed
mayor of the
Olympic Village during the games and received the
Pierre de Coubertin Medal from the
International Olympic Committee, the Olympic movement's highest honor. == Family ==