Intermountain Stories

Walt Brooks comes from a line of respected educators and historians in the southern Utah city of St. George. When he was young, Walt got into trouble a time or two, and finally his father took him down to the courthouse and told him to pick out another name because he wasn’t worthy of his grandfather’s. Walt shaped up, is currently serving as a Utah State Representative, and is passing along the importance of personal accountability to his daughter, Meli. “What you do in life does affect other people, especially people you care about.”