Steven H. Strain, from Birmingham, Michigan, graduated from Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He earned a BA in History and Economics from Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and a JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law. He has been a licensed attorney in Tennessee since 1981. He has been an Assistant District Attorney General in the Twelfth Judicial District since 1990. He has taught various law enforcement agencies, lectured to the Tennessee District Attorney General’s Conference to both assistant district attorneys and victim witness coordinators and has lectured to the Wisconsin district attorneys. He teaches at the New Prosecutors Academy and is chairman of the committee that runs a trial advocacy course for Tennessee prosecutors and third year law students at the University of Memphis School of Law. He has also served on the Rules Commission of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Mr. Strain and his wife of thirty plus years attend Christ Church Episcopal in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. He is a licensed lay preacher in the Diocese of East Tennessee and his sermons may be found on the church web site. He is an avid cyclist and for his sixtieth birthday completed the Triple Bypass Bike Ride in Colorado.