Beth Ann Stewart Campbell, our first nationally RID certified interpreter in Utah and the United States
At the UTRID banquet on August 8, 2014, Beth Ann Stewart Campbell, our first RID certified interpreter, was awarded the Kim Maibaum Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her exceptional contributions to Utah Interpreting and the Utah Deaf community. In many contexts within our community, she was the "first" interpreter, opening doors for many who followed. We are all here today because of the efforts of individuals like her. Beth Ann was a trailblazer who devoted her career to serving the Utah Deaf community. 
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Beth Ann Stewart Campbell, the nation's first interpreter, receives the Kim Maibaum Lifetime Achievement Award during the UTRID banquet on August 8, 2014. She is standing next to Courtney LaDue, President of UTRID
Beth Ann Moon, the hearing daughter of Deaf parents Arnold and Zelma Moon, can't recall when she wasn't interpreting. She began interpreting for the Utah Deaf community in 1963, starting a career that would span a lifetime. After completing the Registry of the Interpreter training session in Indiana in 1965, Beth Ann was the first candidate to take and pass the certification exam. As a result, she is the nation's first RID-certified interpreter. She went on to work in various community, hospital, and higher education settings. In 1970, she was the first interpreter for the University of Utah. She also worked full-time as an interpreter for the Division of Rehabilitation in 1972. She worked as a volunteer to interpret the evening news in a TV corner from 1971 to 1980. With Beth Ann's assistance in interpreting, two local Deaf leaders, Dr. Robert Sanderson, and W. David Mortenson, petitioned the legislature for better deaf education and community outreach needs. Without her, there would be no Robert G. Sanderson Community Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She served on the board of directors of the Utah Association of the Deaf and was one of the organization's first hearing members. Beth Ann also worked as a secretary for the first URID before changing to UTRID in 1968. In addition, Beth Ann was the director of the Utah Community Center for the Deaf from 1985 to 1989. Most of these accomplishments occurred before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires the employment of interpreters in settings.
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Marjorie, Arnold, Zelma and Beth Ann Moon, 1972
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Beth Ann Stewart Campbell
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Beth Ann Stewart Campbell and Courtney LaDue, President of UTRID, presents her with an award
More information about
Beth Ann Stewart Campbell can be found below
http://www.utahdeafhistory.com/biographies-of-prominent-utah-interpreters.html

http://www.utahdeafhistory.com/utah-interpreting-service.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HHj_8Uoe74
On a side note, Beth Ann's husband, Dr. Jay J. Campbell, then Deputy Superintendent of the Utah State Office of Education and an important alley of the Utah Deaf community, became entangled in a controversy between the Utah Association for the Deaf and a hard-core oralist, Dr. Grant B. Bitter. For further details, see the webpage "Dr. Jay J. Campbell's 1977 USD Comprehensive Study."

Julie Hesterman Smith & Jodi Becker Kinner 
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Beth Ann Stewart Campbell & Jay J. Campbell
"Beth Ann Campbell, my long suffering and patient interpreter and colleague, a tenacious advocate for the deaf, who was always ready," Dr. Robert G. Sanderson, a Deaf leader in the Utah Deaf community, said
​(Sanderson, 2004).
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Dr. Jay J. Campbell & Beth Ann Stewart Campbell