He was born in Dutton but grudgingly lives in Missoula. He attended Carroll College and received a degree in Philosophy and an informal degree in irreverence (he uses the latter more than the former). He had a thoroughly undistinguished law school career at the University of Montana School of Law. Now, he tries cases and has repeatedly argued with and before the Montana Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He presently works for Smith & Stephens, P.C.