Derek Brown serves as Utah’s Attorney General after more than two decades in law and public service. He graduated from Pepperdine Law School and clerked for a former chief judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He then practiced constitutional and appellate law at Mayer Brown and later Sidley Austin.

Attorney General Brown served as legal counsel to U.S. Senators Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, then represented House District 49 in the Utah Legislature. He later served as deputy chief of staff and state director for Senator Mike Lee. Alongside his legal and political career, Attorney General Brown has taught communications law as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University. He and his wife Emilie have four children and live in Cottonwood Heights.