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School of Accountancy Conference 2016
Presenters
Derek Brown
Derek E. Brown currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff to United States Senator Michael S. Lee, where he is part of the Senator’s Washington-based advisory team, and also oversees all of the Senator’s Utah staff and offices. Prior to accepting this position in early 2014, Derek was a member of the Utah House of Representatives, serving as Vice Chair of the House Rules Committee and also Vice Chair of the Professional Licensing Review Committee. He also served on the Higher Education Appropriations Committee, the Business and Labor Committee, and the Law Enforcement Committee.
A graduate of Brigham Young University, Derek later graduated from Pepperdine School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Pepperdine Law Review. Derek clerked for Judge Ruggero Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin LLP as part of the Constitutional and Appellate Law Group. Derek later left this position when asked to serve as Chief Counsel to United States Senator Robert F. Bennett. Upon relocating to Utah, Derek served for several years as Legal Counsel to United States Senator Orrin Hatch.
Derek has been Of Counsel with the Utah-based law firm Pia Anderson Reynard Dorius Moss LLP, and was President of Two Little Hands Entertainment. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor of Communications Law at Brigham Young University since 2007. Until 2014, he served as Board President of the Utah Connections Academy, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Intermountain Homecare and Hale Center Theater. In 2012, Derek spent two weeks teaching law classes in four separate law schools in Western Ukraine.
Derek is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Public Administration and Political Science at the University of Utah. He and his wife, Emilie de Azevedo, have four children.