On October 12, 2014, Sheri Dew addressed a packed auditorium at Claremont University on the topic of “Women and the Priesthood.”  The lecture was part of the Claremont Mormon Studies visiting speakers series, sponsored by the Howard W. Hunter Foundation.

As the chief executive officer of Deseret Book Company, Sheri L. Dew (BA ’77, MA ’77, Brigham Young University) oversees the operation of the largest book publisher of Latter-day Saint works. Also respected as a writer/editor she has written two biographies of the faith’s presidents: Gordon B. Hinckley and Ezra Taft Benson. She is recently the author of Women and the Priesthood: What One Woman Believes (Deseret Book, 2013).