Early Life and Education
Lee was the son of Mabel (née Whiting) and Rex E. Lee. He served a mission for the LDS Church in the Mexican Mission. He first met his future wife Janet Griffin (whose father was the Treasury Attaché of the US Embassy in Mexico City) while he was in Mexico. When Lee returned from his mission and enrolled at Brigham Young University he again became acquainted with Janet and they got married the following year.
During his undergraduate years at BYU, Lee was elected student-body president. His law school experience was equally remarkable as he went on to graduate first in his class from the University of Chicago Law School in 1963. From law school he went to Washington, DC, to serve as law clerk to Byron White, then Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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