Mr. Franco was born in Easton, PA, July 2, 1957, and grew up attending high school there. He received his B.S. in Business Administration from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 1983. Later he graduated with a J.D. from Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. Mr. Franco spent his final year of law school as a visiting student at the University of Florida College of Law graduating in 1987.