Lezlie Garity-Gammell is a 58 year old womban who walked the road of Mormonism from birth until 2006. From her womb came five children (ages 35 to 23) and a stepchild (40), who joined her family at age 11. Through four husbands and five marriages, Lezlie finally found her way to forever partnership with her husband of 29 years.
Lezlie is a lifelong learner. She has attended University of Utah, Brigham Young University, University of San Francisco, Hayword, Pierce College, Saddleback College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Oxford University.
In 1977, she was second runner up in the beauty pageant, America’s Junior Miss. This exposure of her religion on the national stage would prompt a worldwide change in Mormon theology the following year. Other beauty pageant crowns followed — like Miss Las Vegas and Miss Nevada Sweetheart — where Lezlie’s talent was dance and her focus was ballet.
In the early 1980s, she was the co-host of two national exercise television shows, Jack La Lanne Live and Alive and Well. Lezlie also wrote an exercise album for Jayne Kennedy, called Love Your Body.
Lezlie has taught dance most of her life, even owning her own studio at one time. Lezlie has always been a force to reckon with and a force for change. She stopped the largest proposed mall from being built in the State of Nevada because it would have disrupted a planned park for children — landing her on the front page of the newspaper and all local news stations. Then following an incident involving her first school-aged child who was trying to cross the street, she petitioned the city for a stoplight and had it installed in a month.
When Lezlie sees a desperate need for change, like equality between our genders, she puts her passionate personality in the hands of an army of angels to petition heaven to Earth.