Timothy Lee

Timothy Lee

Senior Vice President, Center for Individual Freedom

Timothy H. Lee serves as Senior Vice President for the Alexandria, Va.-based <a href="www.cfif.org"> Center for Individual Freedom</a>, a constitutional and free-market advocacy organization with more than 250,000 supporters and activists nationwide. Mr. Lee has extensive experience in the legal, political, and non-profit sectors on legislative, judicial and public affairs issues. <br /> <br /> He frequently provides expert commentary on constitutional, political and free-market issues, as he has appeared as a guest on numerous talk radio shows and various television news programs. <br /> <br /> Mr. Lee is also a frequent contributor of op-eds and letters-to-the-editor to major news publications, and has been quoted in numerous newspaper, Internet and magazine articles. In addition, Mr. Lee is a frequent participant at seminars and on public policy panels, and has commented upon issues dealing with taxation, intellectual property, regulation, judicial confirmations and campaign finance reform, among others. <br /> <br /> Prior to joining the Center for Individual Freedom, Mr. Lee was an attorney in private practice in the Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan areas. During his ten years of practice, Mr. Lee focused primarily upon corporate litigation and labor and employment law, and is therefore an expert in all matters concerning commercial and labor union issues. <br /> <br /> Mr. Lee received his law degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, where he was a member of the University of Southern California Law Review and received numerous academic awards. Prior to obtaining his law degree, Mr. Lee received his Bachelor of Arts degree, Summa Cum Laude, in political science from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, after being born and raised in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia. <br /> <br /> Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom has emerged as a leading voice on many of the nation's preeminent legal and legislative issues, including the First Amendment, real and intellectual property rights, the free market, legal/tort reform, taxation, and energy policy, among others.