Born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1956, Jonathan Parshall received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware, his M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University and his law degree magna cum laude from Widener University School of Law. After clerking in the Delaware Court of Chancery for the Honorable Maurice A. Hartnett, III (later a Justice for the Delaware Supreme Court), he joined Murphy & Landon in 1993.