Attended
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Warren, Ohio, and Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude with a B.A. in government in 1978. After leaving Harvard, he worked as a ghostwriter for
Richard Nixon in California and New York, before studying at the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Order of the Coif. He received his J.D. degree in 1983, then moved to Washington, D.C.