He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and earned a Masters in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. After graduate school, he worked as an Environmental Consultant in Chicago, consulting to a variety of public and private sector clients involved in environmental and mass tort litigation. He later attended the University of Utah College of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Utah Environmental Law Review and worked as State Litigation Coordinator for the Bureau of Land Management. Following graduation in 2012, he served a two-year judicial clerkship.