He was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in southeast Georgia. He attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia for his undergraduate degree and graduated magna cum laude from Emory in 2002 with a B.A. in English. Mr. Ladson received his law degree from Tulane University in 2006. In the summer after his second year of law school, Mr. Ladson worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo, the Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, in Brunswick, Georgia.