Rex Edwin Lee was an American lawyer and academic who served as the 37th solicitor general of the United States from 1981 until 1985. He was responsible for bringing the solicitor general's office to the center of U.S. legal policymaking. During his tenure, Lee argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dallin Harris Oaks is an American religious leader and former jurist and academic who since 2018 has been the first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called as a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1984. Currently, he is the second most senior apostle by years of service and is the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
The J. Reuben Clark Law School is the graduate law school of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1973, the school is named after J. Reuben Clark, a former U.S. Ambassador, Undersecretary of State, and general authority of the institution's sponsoring organization, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born in Grantsville, Utah Territory, Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Undersecretary of State for U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In 1930, Clark was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico.
Dee Vance Benson was a Senior United States district judge and chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. He was briefly a professional soccer player. He was nominated as judge by President George H. W. Bush on May 16, 1991, and confirmed by the United States Senate on September 12, 1991, receiving his commission on September 16, 1991. In May 2004, Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed Judge Benson to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a seven-year term.
Cecil Osborn Samuelson Jr. was the 12th president of Brigham Young University (BYU) and is an emeritus general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prior to holding these positions, Samuelson had worked as a professor of medicine and later dean of the school of medicine at the University of Utah, and senior vice president of Intermountain Health Care (IHC). While he was president at BYU, Samuelson pushed professors and students to raise their expectations and encouraged mentored learning. During his presidency, student enrollment limits stayed constant, new sports coaches were hired, new buildings were built, and a hiring freeze during the Great Recession reduced faculty.
Bruce Clark Hafen is an American attorney, academic and religious leader. He has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1996.
Michael Wise Mosman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. He served as Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon from February 1, 2016, to December 23, 2019. He also served a 7-year term on the FISA Court from May 4, 2013, to May 3, 2020. He previously served as the United States attorney for the same district.
Kevin J Worthen was the 13th president of Brigham Young University (BYU), serving from 2014 to 2023. From 2010 to 2021, he also served as an area seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Worthen served previously at BYU as the Advancement Vice President and as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCL).
Dale A. Whitman is the former James E. Campbell Professor of Law at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, where he retired in 2007. He received his B.E.S. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1963 and his LL.B. law degree from Duke University in 1966. After practising for a short period with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP in Los Angeles, CA, Mr. Whitman began his academic career at the University of North Carolina.
Kathleen Burton Clarke is an American politician, who served as the national director of the United States Bureau of Land Management from 2001 to 2006. Clarke was the first woman to serve in this role.
Dale Albert Kimball is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Stanley D. Neeleman is the Terry L. Crapo professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University. Neeleman is an expert in tax and estate planning law. He has also served in many positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will soon began service as president of the Sao Paulo Brazil Temple.
Carl Stolworthy Hawkins (1926–2010) was a prominent American lawyer, law school dean and also a local leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
James R. Rasband has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2019. He was previously the Academic Vice President (AVP) at Brigham Young University (BYU) from June 2017 until shortly after he was called as a general authority. He also previously served as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS). He has also been the Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law.
Douglas Hugh Parker was an American law school professor. He began his law teaching career as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow (1952–53) at the University of Chicago Law School and later taught as a professor of law at the University of Colorado College of Law (1953–75) and the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School (1975-1991).
The David O. McKay School of Education (SOE) at Brigham Young University (BYU) specializes in teaching, administration, communication disorders, and educational inquiry. It is located in three buildings on BYU's campus in Provo, Utah, the David O. McKay Building, the John Taylor Building, and the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse. It was ranked number 84 in the United States for best education schools for 2021.
Jane Hansen Lassetter is an American nurse and academic administrator serving as dean of the BYU College of Nursing.
