Robert C. Tucker is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he was involved with the school radio station, WGTB. Robert C. Tucker graduated third in his class from the University of Toledo School of Law, where he was also an articles editor for the law review. After law school, Robert C. Tucker clerked for a year for district judge Jack Zouhary in the Northern District of Ohio, and then for another year with federal magistrate judge James R. Knepp II in the same district.