Chris graduated from UVU in 2013, then went on to graduate from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in May of 2016. He then passed the Utah bar in July. He worked on Senator Orrin Hatch's Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. and returned to Utah in December to begin a judicial clerkship at the Utah Court of Appeals in January. During law school Chris wrote onto law review and had his note published in the Utah Law Review. He also received two "Best Brief" awards. He and his teammate won the law school's moot court competition and took second in the regional round of the National Moot Court competition.