The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish to receive highest business honor

The Salt Lake Chamber will honor Bishop Irish as this year's Giant In Our City May 20, at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Giant In Our City award is the most prestigious business award given in Utah.

Carolyn Tanner Irish’s leadership as the 10th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah, the first female leader of a major denomination in Utah, and her role as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the O.C. Tanner Company, have provided different yet philosophically consistent outlets for her greatest passion—championing people.

As a spiritual leader she counsels, advises and heals. As a business leader her priorities remain the same. A pioneer among pioneers, she reaches out to the greater community with a sense of purpose, providing physical, artistic and intellectual beauty. Her sense of responsibility in creating stable jobs and lives has affected untold thousands in the state. Indeed, her actions foster the very essence of the word community.

Carolyn’s ability to reach out and build a sense of oneness between both the religious and the secular, commerce and community, makes her A Giant In Our City.

The dinner and program to honor this year's recipients has been scheduled for May 20, 2010, at The Grand America Hotel. A 6:00 p.m. reception will be followed by dinner and program at 7:00 p.m. The event will be held in the Grand Ballroom at The Grand America Hotel.