Pomeroy was born in 1927 on a ranch in Fontenelle, Wyoming.

[1] In 1950, he received the Pop Warner Trophy as the outstanding senior football player on the West Coast.

[2] He was also selected by both the Associated Press (AP), the United Press (UP), and the conference coaches as a first-team linebacker on the 1950 All-Pacific Coast football team.

[3][4][5] Pomeroy received a degree in petroleum geology and spent his career working in oil and gas exploration in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.

He worked for many years for Occidental Petroleum before forming his own company, Sunburst Exploration, developing oil fields in Utah and Colorado.