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Lee Otis has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning several prestigious organizations. Lee started their career in 1984 as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. After that, they held various positions within the department, including Deputy Associate Attorney General. In 1986, Otis served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court of the U.S. Lee then joined George Mason University School of Law as an Assistant Professor before working as an Associate at JONES DAY®. Otis continued their legal career as Judiciary Counsel for Senator Spence Abraham and later worked at the White House Counsel's Office as an Associate Counsel to the President. Lee also served as Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration at the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Otis then became General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy and later held the role of Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. Lee is currently the Senior Vice President and Director of the Faculty Division at The Federalist Society.
Lee Otis attended Lycee Francais de New York from 1962 to 1974, where they completed their high school education. After that, Lee Otis pursued a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English at Yale University, which they completed in 1979. Lee Otis then went on to study at the University of Chicago Law School, where they earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1983.
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The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities. This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, law students and professors. In working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community.