Early Years and Education
John Brownlee was born in Casper, Wyoming on January 31, 1965. His father, Les Brownlee, was an infantry officer assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. Brownlee’s father began the first of two tours in Vietnam when John was only 6 months old. His mother, Nancy Jane Long Brownlee, was an elementary school teacher who later worked with the Fairfax County, Virginia Head Start program. He has one sister, Tracy Brownlee Carney of Falls Church, Virginia. Brownlee is married to former television news anchor and reporter, Lee Ann Necessary. They have two daughters.
Brownlee graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1987 and received a B.S. degree in Business Administration and Accounting.
In 1994, Brownlee graduated from the William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia. He served as a judicial law clerk for U.S. District Judge Sam Wilson in Roanoke, Virginia. from 1994 to 1996.
From 1997 to 2001, Brownlee served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in Washington, DC.
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