Thomas Rex Lee
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| Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court | |
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Assumed office July 19, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Gary Herbert |
| Preceded by | Michael Wilkins |
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| Born | 1964 (age 52–53) |
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Brigham Young University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
Thomas Rex Lee (born 1964) is the Associate Chief Justice on the Utah Supreme Court. His nomination unanimously passed a vote by the Utah Senate Judiciary Committee in mid-June 2010, and he was sworn in July 19, 2010. In his time on the court he has been prolific writer, authoring over a quarter of majority opinions on a five-member court, and frequently issuing concurring or dissenting opinions. Lee is a pioneer in law and corpus linguistics—the application of corpus linguistics to determine ordinary meaning in statutes—being the first American judge to do so in an opinion.
Lee is the son of former United States Solicitor General Rex E. Lee. He received his bachelors in economics from Brigham Young University (BYU) and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Lee has been a faculty member at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School since 1997, where he was the Rex and Maureen Rawlinson Professor of Law and the faculty adviser to the student chapter of the Federalist Society. He now teaches in an adjunct capacity after his appointment to the Utah Supreme Court. In 2008 Lee was appointed associate dean for faculty and curriculum at the Clark Law School. Prior to his appointment to the Utah Supreme Court, Lee also worked in private practice for the law firm of Howard, Phillips and Andersen. In private practice, Lee specialized in intellectual property law and appellate practice, arguing one case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Justice Department from 2004–2005.
Thomas Rex Lee was born in 1964 to parents Janet (née Griffin) and Rex Lee. He grew up in Arizona, Utah and Northern Virginia. His undergraduate studies took place at Brigham Young University (BYU), graduating summa cum laude in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in economics. Lee graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 1991.
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