Christopher Lewis Peterson (born 1975)[1] is an American attorney, legal scholar, and political candidate working as the John J. Flynn Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J.
Peterson was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 Utah gubernatorial election, losing to Republican lieutenant governor Spencer Cox.
He served as a finance official for the Obama administration, where he focused on protecting United States Armed Forces members from predatory lending.
[4] After graduating from law school, Peterson worked in Wyoming, Washington, D.C., and Florida before returning as a professor at his alma mater.
On April 20 he announced Karina Brown, a Cache County resident as his running mate for Lieutenant governor.