Mr. Wooden has previous law experience as a summer associate at Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge LLP in California, where his primary focus was on litigating constitutional and intellectual property issues.

Mr. Wooden graduated from the University of Utah, SJ Quinney College of Law, with high honors, (J.D., 2007). He was an associate editor of the Utah Law Review. In 2007, the Utah Law Review published Mr. Wooden's note, "The Eleventh Circuit's Maltreatment of Gray-Market Case Law: Davidoff & Cie v. PLD International Corp." Mr. Wooden earned a MPhil in international relations from the University of Cambridge (2004), and his undergraduate degree from Utah State University (B.A., honors history, 2002). Mr. Wooden is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

Mr. Wooden is licensed to practice in the state of California.