Early Life, Education, and Career
Green was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Jeremy and Elizabeth Green. His family moved often, and as a child he lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, Cincinnati, Ohio, England, South Africa and Australia. He attended Abbot Pennings High School (now Notre Dame Academy) in De Pere, Wisconsin.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1983. In 1987, he received a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In law school, he served as a managing editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and won the Justice Robert Jackson Award from the Washington, D.C. Foreign Law Society for "Best Published Student Writing on a Foreign Law Subject". Following graduation from law school, he joined the law firm Godfrey & Kahn S.C. at their Green Bay offices. In 1992, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, where he served for six years and rose to the position of chairman of the Republican Caucus.
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