Was born in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. and earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota in 2002. He earned a Licentiate in Canon Law in 2006 at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and a Doctorate in Canon Law at the same institution in 2015. From 2007-2015, he worked for the Diocese of Winona (U.S.A.), holding the offices of Defender of the Bond, Promoter of Justice, Judge and Vice-Chancellor. He had published articles in various canonical journals and complied. translated, and edited a volume of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura entitled Ministerium Iustitiæ. He has been on the Editorial Committee of the Gratianus Series (Montréal) since 2010. In 2015, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of American in Washington D.C., U.S.A.