Kristin Gerdy Kyle is Distinguished Visiting Professor Legal Process. She is visiting from Brigham Young University Law School where she is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program. Professor Gerdy Kyle joined in the BYU Law School faculty in 1995 and became the director of the Advocacy Program in 2001.  A gifted teacher, Professor Gerdy has been recognized by her peers with the R. Wayne Hansen Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship, and the Brigham Young University Religious Education Transfer Professor Award, and by students with the SBA First-Year Professor of the Year Award. Professor Gerdy Kyle is also a nationally recognized scholar.  She is past president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and former board member of the Legal Writing Institute. She served as Editor-in-Chief of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, a peer-edited scholarly journal, and served for more than a decade as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Legal Communication and Rhetoric. Her scholarship focuses on legal writing and research, legal education, appellate practice and procedure, law and literature, and the integration of religious principals in law. In addition to her service in the Law School, Professor Gerdy Kyle has been active in the wider BYU Community where she has served as Co-Chair of the University’s Faculty Advisory Council, the University Professional Rank and Status Council, the University Curriculum Council, the University Writing Committee, and the BYU/General Relief Society Women’s Conference Committee.  She has also taught Religious Education courses as a transfer faculty member for almost twenty years. Professor Gerdy Kyle is of counsel with a local law firm where she specializes in domestic appeals. She sang for nearly a decade with the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Prof. Gerdy Kyle, her husband, and their children reside in St. George, Utah.