Peter W. Billings ’67

Peter W. Billings ’67, of Salt Lake City; Jun. 29, from metastatic prostate cancer. After Brown, he received a Samuel T. Arnold Fellowship to King’s College in Cambridge. While there he played tennis and rowed. After Cambridge, he graduated from Harvard Law and moved to Washington, D.C., to practice law. In 1974, he moved to Salt Lake City to manage Wayne Owens’s U.S. Senate campaign and joined Fabian & Clendenin, where he practiced law for more than 45 years, 25 of them as president of the firm. Throughout his career he served in various leadership positions that included Brown University trustee, chairman of the Utah Liquor Commission, chairman of the Utah Democratic Party, and president of Salt Lake Country Club. His children taught him how to ski and appreciate the outdoors, which included hiking, snowshoeing, and biking through the mountains and deserts. He in turn taught his grandchildren how to drive (a golf cart) and play pickleball. He is survived by his wife, Margaret “Marney”; a daughter and son-in-law; son David ’02; a daughter-in-law; three grandchildren; and brothers John ’69, Thomas ’73, and Stuart ’77.