Jarrod obtained a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1994, majoring in economics and political science, and both a Juris Doctorate and a Master's in Business Administration from Boston University in 1997. He practiced law for fifteen years, primarily in the areas of business, tax, real estate, estate planning, and asset protection. He's currently employed as an IT buyer, bidding out, negotiating, and managing multi-million dollar software system contracts. He is married and has three children, a grown daughter and two young sons. Jarrod struggled with alcohol and, later, drugs, cumulatively for 23 years, but finally got sober in 2014. He got trained to help others and served as a volunteer peer recovery coach for three years with the 54B District Court Drug Court in East Lansing. He completed the Lawyers & Judges Assistance Program monitoring agreement and now serves as a peer monitor to other JLAP participants. A member of multiple nonprofit boards, Jarrod continues to volunteer on Friday nights at the House of Commons, where he received his last inpatient treatment. He has spent many hours assisting recoverees and their families in overcoming their addictions and rebuilding their lives. Jarrod enjoys reading, working out, and spending time with his family, especially outdoors. He is an avid triathlete and completed his first iron-distance triathlon in the summer of 2023. Jarrod credits the help he received from many others--including FAN--for his long-term recovery and the ability to rebuild his entire life, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, and socially, and he seeks to help others do the same wherever possible.