Steven L. Brown, was raised in the Bay Area and has lived in the San Joaquin Valley for 23 years. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in 1989, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Kappa Phi. He then obtained his Juris Doctor degree from J. Rueben Clark School of Law, at Brigham Young University, in 1993. During law school, he clerked for the firm of Ivie and Young, an insurance defense and plaintiff’s personal injury firm. Upon graduating, he promptly passed the California Bar exam and was hired by the medical malpractice defense firm of Craddick, Candland and Conti, in Danville, California, where he had clerked while in law school. He subsequently became a partner. He worked for various hospitals and medical providers throughout the Bay Area and throughout northern and central California.