section_path: Early life and education
section_name: Early life and education
paragraph_text: Early life and education
  
  Duffy was born on October 3, 1971, in Hayward, Wisconsin, the tenth of 11 children of Carol Ann (née Yackel) and Thomas Walter Duffy. He has Irish and German ancestry. He has a bachelor's degree in marketing from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law.
  
  Duffy started log rolling at age five and speed climbing (sprinting up 60- and 90-foot poles) at 13. He holds two speed-climbing titles.
  
  Duffy was born on October 3, 1971, in Hayward, Wisconsin, the tenth of 11 children of Carol Ann (née Yackel) and Thomas Walter Duffy. He has Irish and German ancestry. He has a bachelor's degree in marketing from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctor from William Mitchell College of Law.
  
  Duffy started log rolling at age five and speed climbing (sprinting up 60- and 90-foot poles) at 13. He holds two speed-climbing titles.