Ralph Dewsnup is a trial attorney and founding member of Dewsnup, King & Olsen law firm in Salt Lake City, where he has practiced law since 1977. He is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, having served in the Utah Air National Guard for thirty-nine years.

Mary Dewsnup is a former elementary school teacher who left teaching to be a mother. The Dewsnup’s are the parents of five children and they have 25 grandchildren.