Cabinet members of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson ('26), and former United States Solicitor General, Rex E. Lee ('60).[222][223] Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee, and current U.S. Senator, was class of 1971. Ryan D. Nelson, a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge, is an alumnus of both BYU and BYU Law.