I have lived almost all of my 42 years in Wilson County, Tennessee. I was born at Martha Gaston Hospital in Lebanon on August 29, 1967. I attended Highland Heights Elementary School, junior high at Walter J. Baird, and I graduated in the top 10% of my class at Lebanon High School in 1985.

Throughout high school, I was active in the Future Farmers of America, serving as vice-president my junior year and as president my senior year. From judging activities to public speaking, FFA was a defining activity for me. I come from a long line of people who have worked the land and enjoy all things agricultural. I worked cattle on my family's farm, as well as a neighboring farm to earn money during school.

After high school, I worked predominately in the restaurant industry for various different companies to pay for college. If you lived in Lebanon or McMinnville, I may have been your Domino's guy. I was also fortunate enough to obtain college scholarship that funded a large part of my education expenses in exchange for working for MTSU. My agricultural background afforded me the fun job of working at the MTSU dairy farm. In a few years, my academic average allowed me to sleep a little later as a researcher in the history department

I went on to college at Middle Tennessee State University, as a student of the Aerospace program. I hoped to become a professional pilot. My eyesight was a little lacking to be a pilot, so I opted to stay in the school and changed my major to Aviation Administration. I graduated in 1992 cum laude with a Bachelor of Science.

I continued to take graduate level courses at MTSU in Aviation Education with the thought of someday teaching. In 1996, I was accepted to the Nashville School of Law and graduated as a Doctor of Juris Prudence in 2001. I was salutatorian of my law school class and inducted into the Cooper's Inn Academic Honor Society.

My work at Domino's Pizza funded my first two years of law school. Needing more time to study, I ultimately began security work. Also, while in law school I worked as a law clerk at a firm in Nashville and as an intern for the District Attorney's office in Lebanon. After graduation from law school, I joined the association of lawyers at Underhill, Blackwell, Underhill and Givens in Madison

I ultimately became a sole practitioner in 2004 with an office location in Watertown and Nashville, as well as a new location in Lebanon. My practice is general with a real emphasis on social security work and personal injury. I am a Tennessee Supreme Court approved Rule 31 Mediator in the field of general civil mediation.

In 1993 my family and I began raising beef cattle and a few horses. We continue to be involved in agriculture to this day. Right now, I have a very rambunctious white Tennessee walking horse named, Nash, and a Charlois heifer, named Abby.