As a boy of 7, he entertained himself by putting together puzzles with his favorite being one of the U.S. Presidents, which then went from George Washington to Lyndon Johnson. Ben Studdard III says thanks to that puzzle, he knew he would someday become a lawyer.

“At 7, I didn’t know any lawyers and there were none in my family, but I had a jigsaw puzzle that had pictures of all the presidents up to that time,” Studdard said. “It had their pictures and what they did before they became president. I noticed most all were lawyers. I said if I wanted to be the president, I needed to become a lawyer.”

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