Background
He came from a political family (great-grandson of Thomas Coke Howard, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, and grandson of William S. Howard who served in the Georgia House, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives). Howard attended the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the tennis team and president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and went on to receive a law degree from the University of Georgia as well. In 1974, he married Nancy Barnes and they have two children, Christopher and Caroline.
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