Sue Ferry, one of the first contract lobbyists in Utah and the matriarch of a family consulting business that remains a going concern, died Sunday of natural causes. She was 86.
When Ferry first hung out a shingle as a contract lobbyist, her workplace — the marble hallways of the Utah Capitol — was a quiet, almost lonely place.
It was the early 1980s, and aside from a few in-house corporate consultants and government officials, there was Ferry and Doug Foxley.
“Sue and I were the pioneers of contract lobbying in Utah,” Foxley said Thursday. “I was the first and Sue was immediately thereafter — we’re talking 1980 to 1981.