Libertarian Party

About the Candidate

I was born in St. Charles, Missouri where I attended Catholic schools. In high school I was a National Merit Commended Student and was a captain of the high school football team. Playing on the football team showed me the power of teamwork and taught me that many hands make light work. I learned about leadership as one of the team captains and was awarded the United States Marine Corps' Distinguished Athlete Award my senior year. I also sang in the high school musical and played the part of Curly in Oklahoma!

I won a bright flight scholarship to attend college at Mizzou and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1994. I decided to go to law school in order to learn more about the United States Constitution because of the way it binds all of us together as Citizens of these United States. Admittedly, I never read a single Missouri Statute prior to becoming a law student, but once I did, I soon realized that most of these laws were not being written by the people who had to apply them to real life. During law school I was both pleased and displeased with what I learned. I was pleased to learn more about the principles upon which the Founders built this Nation but I was displeased with the way that these principles had been obscured, both judicially and legislatively throughout the years and especially in the last half of the twentieth century. Each case I read that helped to define and strengthen our freedom seemed to be accompanied by a dozen cases taking it away an inch at a time. In any event, we still have the process within which to work.

After graduating from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1997 I opened up my own practice which is entering its tenth year. I live in Brookside just south of UMKC. I'm married with 3 children and 2 dogs.