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Education and background

J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (#28 in US News Best Law Schools 2024 rankings)

J.D. cum laude; J. Reuben Clark Law Scholar; Executive Editor, Brigham Young University Law Review; Order of the Coif

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

B.S. magna cum laude; High honors with distinction; University Scholar; Phi Kappa Phi

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania, Utah (inactive), U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit

Community Involvement

Franklin Industrial and Commercial Development Authority, Solicitor 1993—2004; Venango Economic Development Corporation, Director 1996—2002, Chair 1996—1998; Borough of Polk, Solicitor, 2005—present; Housing Authority of the County of Venango, Solicitor 2005—2014; Venango County Bar Association, President 2009; Venango County Historical Society, Director 2011—2013; Venango County Republican Party, Committee Member 2001—2004, 2017—present, Parliamentarian 2001—2004, 2012—2013, Chair 2013—2017; Sugar Valley Lodge Personal Care Home, Director 2020—present.

Publications

A Comparison of the Pennsylvania and Delaware Corporation Statutes, 89 Dickinson Law Review 809 (Summer 1985); Reasonable Assurance of Actual Notice Required for In Personam Default Judgment in Utah: Graham v. Sawaya, 1981 BYU Law Review 937.

J. Reuben Clark Law School,
BYU, Provo, Utah

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

--Abraham Lincoln,
Lecture Notes,
July 1, 1850