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ST. GEORGE — Nancy Workman, the first mayor of Salt Lake County and the only Republican to have held that post, died on Sunday, May 3, at the age of 79.
According to an obituary, she died peacefully at her home in St. George.
Workman broke barriers in both her career and personal life. She graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in art and went on to form her own school of interior design.
Workman was Utah's first female general contractor, building a successful construction company with her husband, Reed, who died in 2010.
She also bred and competed with Arabian horses and raced motorcycles, her obituary says.
Workman served as mayor of Salt Lake County from 2000 to 2004. She was charged with, and later acquitted in 2005 of, two counts of felony misuse of public money.
She went on to head the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Utah Republican Party expressed its condolences in a Facebook post. "Our thoughts and prayers are with her family," it said.
"Family and friends may gather to scatter her ashes by Reed's at Cherry Creek on Sage Rider Pit Row on May 16, 2020" at 11 a.m., her obituary says.
