Clifford's Notes

A man of humble beginnings, he rode a tractor as a young boy on his grandfather's farm in Grundy County. He had dreams of being a professional basketball player.He didn't play for the Boston Celtics as he had dreamed, but instead that mild-mannered man became an attorney who started his career as a legal aid lawyer. When he opened his own firm in the 1990s, it was a hard economic time. He helped his neighbors …