Linda Farron grew up in the Finger Lakes area of the rolling hills of New York State.  She graduated as a Regents Scholar.  She is  married to Dennis C. Knapp, an engineer at SRS and a former US Navy submariner.  They moved 22 times before settling in  the Thoroughbred Country of South Carolina.  Linda was the first USC Law School intern with the SC Supreme Court.  She clerked for Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal.  She was on the Dean's Honor Roll.  She graduated and was admitted to the SC Bar in 1991.  She was an associate attorney with a general practice firm for 9 years, before moving to SC Legal Services, and then opened her own firm in 2003.  She now focuses on estate planning, elder law, and probate.