Paul Edwards

Paul S. Edwards was born in Utah and grew up in New Jersey and Colorado. He served a mission in Southern France. After studying history at BYU, he earned his law degree and a doctorate in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Within higher education, Brother Edwards has taught courses in law and politics at numerous universities including U.C. Berkeley, BYU, and George Mason; he has also served as vice president for academic affairs at the Institute for Humane Studies, as president of the Mercatus Center at George Mason, and as provost at Southern Virginia. Within government, Brother Edwards was a judicial law clerk to Judge Cecil Poole on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and served as the policy and communications director for Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. From 2010 to 2016, he worked at the Deseret News as the editorial page editor, and as editor-in-chief and publisher. Brother Edwards is now a professor at BYU where he directs the Wheatley Institute. Brother Edwards and his wife Margo have four children and three grandchildren.