He holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Florida State University and served as a Quartermaster officer in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Gavin grew up in Virginia Beach and met his wife Mollie as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. They moved to Lexington from Lubbock, TX in 2014 and have three sons: Cooper (attending Waddell), Gibson (Primary at Woods Creek), and Sawyer (Pre-Toddler at Woods Creek).