Sheri Dew

CEO of Deseret Book

Sheri L Dew is a prominent leader, member, and author of and for the Mormon Church.  She has served in numerous leadership positions within the Mormon Church, country, and world.  She has served as the White House Delegate to the United Nations and is currently serving as CEO of Deseret Book Company.

Sheri Dew MormonDew was born in 1954 and raised on a farm in Kansas.  During her adolescence, she excelled at basketball and was deeply devoted and committed to her membership in the Church as one of the only Mormons at her high school.  She graduated from Brigham Young University and quickly moved into the Mormon publishing business.  She has served the Mormon Church in a number of callings.  For five years, she served a counselor in the general presidency of the women’s Relief Society.   What makes her such a unique and prominent member of the Church is that she is the first non-married woman ever to achieve such a high position in Mormon Church.  Being a single woman in a family and marriage centered religion has caused Dew to stand out from the crowd.  She is well-respected by many women in the church.

Dew is a highly sought after motivational speaker.  Her fan-base is comprised mostly of Mormons.  She has traveled throughout the world, speaking to Mormon audiences in the United States, Columbia, Africa, the Phillpines, Cambodia, South America, and Japan.

Dew is an accomplished author as well.  Dew was selected to write the official biographies of Ezra Taft Benson and Gordon B. Hinckley, two LDS Presidents.  She has also written the biography of Sharlene Wells, a past Mormon Miss America.  She has written inspirational books for Mormons including, “If Life were Easy it Wouldn’t be Hard” and “No Doubt About it” to name a few.

Dew’s work led her to be an advocate for George W. Bush’s conservative social agenda.  Dew actively defended the Bush administration’s conservative social agenda, proposing abstinence and monogamy as the solution for AIDS and other global ills.  She has been vocal about her opposition to gay marriage and new social trends suggesting there should be no difference between men and women’s gender roles.

As an author and CEO of a publishing company, Dew considers education a priority.  Dew spearhead a humanitarian program to send children’s books to impoverished areas of the world. The first shipment of 6,500 books was sent to Ghana and Fiji in July 2005.

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