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Lisa Grow Sun is an American legal scholar based in Utah. She is the Howard W. Hunter Professor of Law at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. She was the first female valedictorian in Harvard Law School history.
Sun attended Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with a BS in Chemistry before attending Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she was the notes chair of the Harvard Law Review, a senior editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. After law school, Sun clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.
Sun has been a professor at BYU Law since 2008. She teaches torts, constitutional law, and disaster law.
