Rex and janet lee biography
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Rex E. Lee
Rex E. Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) from St. Johns, Arizona, was a respected Constitutional lawyer, tenth president of Brigham ung University (from July 1, 1989 through December 31, 1995), and United States Solicitor General beneath the Reagan Administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Born to Rex E. Lee and Mabel Whiting Lee, he was a descendant of John D. Lee and Jacob Hamblin and a cousin to a number of Udall family politicians.
While an undergrad at Brigham Young University, he was elected student body president. He earned his JD degree—first in his class—from the University of Chicago Law School. After clerking at the U.S. Supreme Court, he became a partner in the Phoenix, Arizona, law firm of Jennings, Strouss, and Salmon. He left his successful legal career in 1972 to serve as the founding dean
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Thomas Rex Lee
American judge (born 1964)
Thomas Rex Lee (born December 28, 1964) is a former American jurist who was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 2010 to 2022. Lee is also a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School[1] and an adjunct professor/distinguished lecturer at Brigham Young University's (BYU) J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCL) following his appointment to the bench.[2]
Lee is a pionjär 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.[3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Thomas Rex Lee was born in 1964 to Janet (née Griffin) and Rex E. Lee. He grew up in Arizona, Utah, and nordlig Virginia. Lee attended BYU, graduating in 1988 with a Bachelor of Artssumma cum laude in economics.[5] He then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago La
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HERITAGE AWARD HONORS JANET LEE FOR HER LOVE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Can one be honored for having mastered the art of unconditional love?
Janet Griffin Lee will receive the 1996 Heritage Award from the Utah-California Women on Nov. 30.In addition to honoring Lee, the women's organization will raise funds for the Utah Special Olym-pics with its traditional holiday boutique. This year the boutique will be open from 9 a.m to 7 p.m. (See accompanying box for details.) Gifts for sale will include floral arrangements, tole-painted items, jewelry, dolls and toys, Christmas decorations, and cosmetics, and the Special Olympics will have an appliance booth.
When Lee is introduced at the luncheon, Utah-California Women president Suzanne Turner Merrill will mention that Lee was born in Paris, France, where her father was a U.S. Treasury official. She'll say that Janet Lee is the wife of the late Rex Lee, who clerked for a justice of the Supreme Court, was an assistant U.S. attorney g