Hayden began clerking at TWS in 2010, after clerking for the 72nd, 99th, and 237th District Courts while attending law school at Texas Tech University. He has been an associate attorney with TWS since December of 2011. Hayden was born in Amarillo, and after short stints in several small towns in the Texas panhandle, his family settled in the small community of Turpin, located in the Oklahoma panhandle.