Editing Rex E. Lee (section)

==Legacy==
During his career, Lee argued 59 cases before the Supreme Court.<ref name="la">{{cite news |last1=Malnic |first1=Eric |title=Rex Lee; Solicitor General, BYU President |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-12-mn-46122-story.html |access-date=May 8, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 12, 1996}}</ref> Future associate Supreme Court justice [[Samuel Alito]] served as an assistant to Solicitor General Lee from 1981 to 1985, where Alito argued 12 cases before the Court.<ref name="bros">Gardner, Peter B. [http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=2768 ''Brothers in Law'', BYU Magazine, Spring 2011] retrieved 2012-05-08</ref> According to scholar Rebecca Mae Salokar, Rex E. Lee brought the position of Solicitor General into the center of policymaking in the United States.<ref name="salokar" /> In 1998, the JRCLS created the Rex E. Lee Chair to honor him.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoffman |first1=Andrew |title=Brett Scharffs Appointed to BYU Law School's Rex E. Lee Chair |url=https://www.iclrs.org/blurb/brett-scharffs-appointed-to-byu-law-schools-rex-e-lee-chair/ |website=International Center for Law and Religious Studies |publisher=BYU Law |access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Southworth |first1=Mike |title=Law school to honor late BYU president, Rex Lee |url=https://universe.byu.edu/1998/03/01/law-school-to-honor-late-byu-president-rex-lee/ |access-date=May 8, 2019 |work=The Daily Universe |publisher=Brigham Young University |date=March 1, 1998}}</ref>

Lee won one of the first Distinguished Utahn of the Year awards.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beistline |first1=Leslie |title=Distinguished Utah County residents to be recognized |url=https://universe.byu.edu/1998/05/06/distinguished-utah-county-residents-to-be-recogniz/ |access-date=May 8, 2019 |work=The Daily Universe |publisher=Brigham Young University |date=May 6, 1998}}</ref> Lee was an avid runner throughout his life (he was nominated to be Solicitor General two days after completing the [[Boston Marathon]]),<ref name="NYTIMES"/> and an annual race is held in his honor at BYU to raise proceeds for cancer research.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rex Lee Run |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/595051490/Rex-Lee-Run.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922184143/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/595051490/Rex-Lee-Run.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 22, 2018 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |work=Deseret News |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |date=March 26, 2004}}</ref>