After six years in the military, Mr. Lindgren completed his bachelor's degree in Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He then worked in the public Affairs Department of the Kroger Co. and later as a freelance technical writer. In 1993, Mr. Lindgren entered Samuel P. Chase College of Law and graduated in the top one-third of his class. Since then, he has focused his practice on family-law issues and criminal defense in Hanmilton, Clermont, Warren and Butler counties in southwest Ohio.