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Thomas Rex Lee (born 1964) is the (Associate Chief Justice ) on the Utah Supreme Court. His nomination unanimously passed a vote by the Utah Supreme Court Judiciary Committee in mid-June 2010, and he was sworn in July 19, 2010. (Above the Law ) has identified Justice Lee as one of five state supreme court justices who have had at least one of their clerks later clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court. Additionally, seven of his twelve past and current clerks have or will go on to federal appellate clerkships: D.C. Circuit (Thomas B. Griffith--2 and Janice Rogers Brown), 9th Circuit (Milan Smith and Jay Bybee), 6th Circuit (Jeffrey Sutton), and 3rd Circuit (Kent A. Jordan). Justice Lee is also a pioneer in the application of corpus linguistics to determine ordinary meaning, being the first American judge to do so in an opinion. Justice 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. Justice Lee has been a faculty member at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School since 1997, where he is the Rex and Maureen Rawlinson Professor of Law and teaches in an adjunct capacity after his appointment to the Utah Supreme Court. In 2008 Justice Lee was appointed associate dean for faculty and curriculum at the Clark Law School.〔() 〕 Prior to his appointment to the Utah Supreme Court, Justice Lee also worked in private practice for the law firm of Howard, Phillips and Andersen. In private practice, Justice Lee specialized in intellectual property law. Many of the intellectual property rights cases he has been involved in revolved around trade-mark infringements brought by or against automobile manufacturers such as General Motors and Ford Motor Company. He has also written multiple papers on the issues related to counting non-residents in the census with Lara J. Wolfson. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Justice Department from 2004-2005. In 2002-2004 he served as the lead counsel in cases brought by the state of Utah in relation to plans to put nuclear waste on the Gosuite Indian Reservation. Justice Lee and his wife Kimberly are the parents of six children. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His brother, Mike Lee, was elected a U.S. Senator from Utah in 2010. ==Early life, education, and career== Thomas Rex Lee was born in 1964 to parents Rex and Janet 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 pursued a law degree at the University of Chicago, graduating with high honors in 1991. After receiving his law degree, Lee began a one-year term as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson, III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1991–92). He joined the firm of Kimball, Parr, Waddoups, Brown & Gee as an associate in 1992, after clerking for Judge Wilkinson. Lee accepted a one-year term as a law clerk for the Honorable Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1994–95). He became a shareholder at Kimball, Parr, Waddoups, Brown & Gee in 1995, a position he would hold until 1997 when he left the firm to join the faculty of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. At the law school, Lee taught courses in Civil Procedure and Intellectual Property Law, and a seminar on the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Associate Dean and was named the Rex and Maureen Rawlinson Professor of Law. He remains a Distinguished Lecturer in Law at BYU. While at the law school, Lee worked in an "of counsel" capacity at Howard, Phillips, & Andersen, representing the firm in numerous cases involving intellectual property matters. During the years of 2001 to 2004, Lee served as lead counsel for the State of Utah in a number of cases. In 2004-05, Lee took a leave from the law school to serve as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, US Department of Justice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Rex Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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