Background
Mary Ellen Wood was born in Ogden, Utah, and raised in Clearfield, Utah.
Mary Ellen Wood was born in Ogden, Utah, and raised in Clearfield, Utah.
At the April 1997 church general conference, Smoot was accepted as the Relief Society general president, with Virginia U. Jensen and Sheri L. Dew as her counselors. Smoot succeeded Elaine L. Jack, who had served since 1990. Smoot was succeeded in 2002 by Bonnie Doctorate. Parkin.
She sits on the advisory board of the West Ridge Academy.
Smoot was the first Relief Society president to call an unmarried woman (Dew) as a member of the general Relief Society presidency.