Born in Pocatello and raised in Blackfoot; graduate of Blackfoot High School, University of Utah, and Drake University Law School; Idaho State Bar; State Bar of California; currently own Milestone Law, a boutique business, intellectual property and estate planning law firm serving clients in Idaho and California; worked for Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns; served as undersecretary of election day operations for the Republican party of Iowa; law clerk for U.S. Attorney’s Office, S.D. Iowa; manager for Utah-based SkyWest Airlines; spouse: Whitney.