Michael S. Lee

Michael Shumway Lee (b. June 4, 1971) from Alpine, Utah is a Constitutional attorney and Republican candidate for election to .
Biography
Lee was born in Mesa, Arizona on June 4, 1971. His family moved to Provo, Utah one year later when his father, the late Rex E. Lee, became the founding dean of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. While Lee spent about half of his childhood years in Utah, he spent the other half in McLean, Virginia - a suburb of Washington, D.C. - while his father was serving first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney General (overseeing the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Ford Administration) from 1975 until 1976, and then as the U.S. Solicitor General (charged with representing the United States government before the Supreme Court during the first term of the Reagan Administration) from 1981 until 1985.
After graduating from Timpview High School (Provo, Utah) in 1989, Mike attended Brigham Young University as an undergraduate student, receiving a B.S. in Political Science in 1994. He served as BYU's Student Body President during the 1993-1994 school year.
After graduating from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1997, Lee served as a law clerk to Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The following year, he clerked for then-Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., who was serving at that time on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Court in Newark, New Jersey. After finishing his clerkships, Lee joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley & Austin, where he specialized in appellate and Supreme Court of the United States litigation. Several years later, Lee returned to Utah to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. from January 2005 until June 2006, when he returned to Washington to serve a one-year clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Alito.
Lee returned to Utah (and to private practice) in the summer of 2007, joining the Salt Lake office of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Howrey LLP. Lee has earned a reputation as an outstanding lawyer based on his courtroom advocacy skills and thorough understanding of the U.S. Constitution.
Lee has served on the BYU alumni board, the BYU Law School alumni board, and as a long-time member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. He is also an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served a two-year mission for the Church in the Texas Rio Grande Valley from 1990 to 1992.
Lee married the former Sharon Burr in 1993. They live in Alpine, Utah and have three children.

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