Tim is an eastern North Carolina native who made Raleigh home. He was born and raised in Greenville, where his father worked for nearly three decades as a public-school teacher and his mother works as a physician on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. Tim is a proud, lifelong product of North Carolina public schools. After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, Tim chose to become a lawyer to stand up for working people and civil rights, receiving his law degree with honors from UNC School of Law, where he served on the North Carolina Law Review and was inducted into UNC's Order of the Golden Fleece.
After graduating from law school, Tim moved to Raleigh to start his legal career as a law clerk on both state appellate courts. In 2019, he married his wife, Landen, who is completing her PhD at NC State University. Tim serves on the North Carolina Bar Association Appellate Rules Committee and the Raleigh Human Relations Commission. In 2015, he was also selected for the inaugural class of Jamie Kirk Hahn Fellows with the Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation in Raleigh.