section_path: Early life and education (1980–2005)
section_name: Early life and education (1980–2005)
paragraph_text: Early life and education (1980–2005)
  
  Kashyap Pramod Patel was born on February 25, 1980, in Garden City, New York. He is the son of Pramod Patel, a Ugandan of Indian descent who was among those who faced ethnic persecution and were expelled by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972. The Patels, a member of the Patidar community in Gujarat, were originally from the village of Bhadran in the Anand district. Chh Gam Patidar Mandal, an organization in Bhadran, has maintained a vanshavali, or family tree of the Patel family for 18 generations. They briefly returned to India while having applied for asylum in the United States, the UK, and Canada. They moved to Canada once their applications were accepted. Subsequently, they moved to the U.S. and Pramod started working as a chief financial officer for a global distributor of aircraft bearings. Patel's household included Pramod's eight brothers and sisters. He was raised Hindu. In his youth, Patel played ice hockey, later coaching a youth hockey league. Patel skates with the Dons, a club team in Washington, D.C.
  
  Patel attended Garden City High School and his senior-year quote was "Racism is man’s gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason", by Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel. During summers, Patel worked as a caddie at the Garden City Country Club. According to his memoir, Government Gangsters (2023), although he was interested in medical school programs, he was inspired by defense lawyers who golfed at the club. Patel graduated from the University of Richmond in 2002 with a degree in criminal justice and history. He earned a certificate in international law from the University College London and graduated from the Pace University School of Law in 2005. According to a questionnaire he sent to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Patel participated in the American Bar Association 's "Judicial Intern Opportunity Program", a diversity initiative, as a student at Pace University in 2003.
  
  Kashyap Pramod Patel was born on February 25, 1980, in Garden City, New York. He is the son of Pramod Patel, a Ugandan of Indian descent who was among those who faced ethnic persecution and were expelled by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972. The Patels, a member of the Patidar community in Gujarat, were originally from the village of Bhadran in the Anand district. Chh Gam Patidar Mandal, an organization in Bhadran, has maintained a vanshavali, or family tree of the Patel family for 18 generations. They briefly returned to India while having applied for asylum in the United States, the UK, and Canada. They moved to Canada once their applications were accepted. Subsequently, they moved to the U.S. and Pramod started working as a chief financial officer for a global distributor of aircraft bearings. Patel's household included Pramod's eight brothers and sisters. He was raised Hindu. In his youth, Patel played ice hockey, later coaching a youth hockey league. Patel skates with the Dons, a club team in Washington, D.C.
  
  Patel attended Garden City High School and his senior-year quote was "Racism is man’s gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason", by Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel. During summers, Patel worked as a caddie at the Garden City Country Club. According to his memoir, Government Gangsters (2023), although he was interested in medical school programs, he was inspired by defense lawyers who golfed at the club. Patel graduated from the University of Richmond in 2002 with a degree in criminal justice and history. He earned a certificate in international law from the University College London and graduated from the Pace University School of Law in 2005. According to a questionnaire he sent to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Patel participated in the American Bar Association 's "Judicial Intern Opportunity Program", a diversity initiative, as a student at Pace University in 2003.