Early Life
On September 22, 1921, Lent was born in Portland, Oregon. Raised in the Lents neighborhood of southeast Portland, Berkeley earned his primary education there, graduating from Franklin High School. After high school he moved to Los Angeles, California where he attended Occidental College from 1944 to 1945. Also in 1944, he married Dorothy Welch. Lent joined the United States Navy that year. Lent then returned to Portland where he attended Reed College, graduating in 1948.
He then went on to law school at Willamette University College of Law where he graduated with his juris doctorate in 1950 and was president of his class his final year. After law school Lent moved to San Francisco, California and worked for Bancroft-Whitney Law Publishing Company as an editor. He then returned to Portland and worked for the Bonneville Power Administration as a staff attorney. After practicing law in Coos Bay, Oregon, Lent returned again to Portland and began working at the law firm of Peterson & Pozzi beginning in 1953.
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