Clay P. Graham has been a lifelong resident of Zanesville, Ohio where he and his wife of 26 years, Alice, raised 2 children, Cole and Courtney. He graduated from Zanesville High School in 1973 where he played basketball and golf.

He is a 1977 Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Denison University.  While in college, he was a four-year letterman on the Denison basketball team and a member of the Beta Theta Phi fraternity.  It was also at Denison that he met his wife who was from Shaker Heights, Ohio.

He was also a 1980 graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law where he published for the Law Review and received the top Trial Advocacy Award.  During law school, he was a summer intern at the Columbus law firm of Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease. Following graduation, he served as a law clerk to the late Honorable Joseph P. Kinneary of the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio.

His career as a practicing attorney began in Zanesville with his family's law firm, founded in 1923: Graham & Graham, Co., L.P.A.  Clay Graham has focused his practice on medical malpractice, products liability, and personal injury law.  He is a former president of the Muskingum County Bar Association, and is a member of the Ohio Association of Trial Lawyers, Ohio State Bar Association, and is a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference.