James Wylie Sessions (11 December, 1885 – 21 April 1977) was the first Institute of Religion director in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was sent in 1926 by church president Heber J. Grant to head the Institute of Religion in Moscow, Idaho. Sessions later served as the head of the church's mission home in Salt Lake City, Utah for many years. From 1939 to 1947, Sessions was the head of the Division of Religion at Brigham Young University.