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Friends, Boy time is flying by, I can smell springtime in the air and soon we will be in St. George, Utah for UTA’s Annual Convention. Sometimes we have to stop, look around and smell the roses.
Irene Warr one of Utah’s great ladies in Utah’s trucking Industry passed away on January 30, 2013 from multiple myeloma.
Irene was born in 1931 in Erda, Tooele County, Utah. She graduated from Tooele High School in 1949 and enrolled in Westminster College in 1950. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1954, cumlaude in biology, chemistry and pre-med, and then entered the University of Utah College of Law, receiving her Juries Doctor in 1957. Since 1957, about 55 years, she was engaged in private practice.
For more than forty-eight years Irene was a member of the National Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy Association, where she served as regional vice president. She was recognized among the first 100 women admitted to practice law in the state of Utah (she was the 38th admittee). Irene held the oldest active license among Utah’s women lawyers. In July of 1999, the Utah Bar designated Irene “Distinguished Lawyer of the Year.”
UTAH ASSOCIATION Rick Clasby
Executive Director
rick@utahtrucking.com Terry Smith
Safety & Membership Director
terry@utahtrucking.com
Sasha Seegmiller
Communications Director
sasha@utahtrucking.com
Julie Mattingly Accountant
julie@utahtrucking.com
Utah Trucking Association (UTA) is an affiliate of the American Trucking Associations. UTA is a Utah corporation of trucking companies, private carrier fleets and businesses which serve or supply the trucking industry. UTA serves these companies as a governmental affairs representative before legislative, regulatory and executive branches of government on issues that affect the trucking industry. The organization also provides public relations services, education serves, operational services and serves as a forum for industry meetings and membership relations.
For more information, contact UTA at:
Utah Trucking Association 3060 West California Avenue (13th South - Off I-215)
Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 Phone: 801.973.9370 FAX: 801.973.8515
www.utahtrucking.com
www.utahtrucking.com Let’s keep on trucking.
Scott Godfrey CEO, President
Godfrey Trucking, Inc.
scottg@godfreytrucking.com UTAH TRUCKING ~ Issue 1, 2013 7
Irene was quite a unique person, she had a way of just saying things the way she saw them. She was not bashful nor could she afford to be in a man’s world of transportation and being a women lawyer. Being in these two fields in the 1960, 1970 and 1980 just shows how much grit, determination and mental toughness that she had to have, not only to survive but to become so well known.
One of her many quotes that she would say to me is, “whenever you get in any kind of lawsuit the plaintiff and the defendant are just like two pigs going to the slaughter house, you both come out like sausages and the lawyers get the money.”
Trucking companies in Utah and the inter-mountain area received advice from Irene over the years. Back when you had to have the tariffs on file, dealing with the Interstate Commerce Commission was very complicated. She was a good person to know.
Irene was a very compassionate person and was very professional but firm. When I would meet with her, I felt like I was in the principal’s office getting chewed out. At the same time I felt like every time I went to see her, I was being tutored by my own professor.
Irene will surely be missed and there will be a huge void left for the old time truckers to fill as we all look back on the friendship and mentoring that she did for so many of us.
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