He’s a modern-day Doogie Howser.
An overachieving Alabama teenager is on the verge of becoming the state’s youngest lawyer ever after graduating high school at age 10, earning a bachelor’s degree from Huntington College at 16, and a law degree from the University of Alabama this year at 19.
Now Seth Harding is set to take the state bar exam, which would make him the youngest lawyer in modern Alabama history, WSFA-TV News reported.
“If you look in the history of the US, a lot of our leaders started in the legal field and then moved up through there,” Harding told the station. “And that’s the plan. To be the best lawyer I can be and be the best person I can be.”
“After I pass the bar exam, I will be a staff attorney,” he added. “The next phase is to just be the very best staff attorney I can be, and serve my clients every day.”
Like the Neil Patrick Harris character in the hit 1990s TV show, in which he played a 16-year-old doctor, Harding raced through his education — although Harding, the sixth oldest of 10 kids, was homeschool by his parents, Kip and Mona Lisa Harding.
“We feel that if you love your kids, you know your kids best, you know what their strengths and weaknesses are,” Mona Lisa Harding told WSFA. “We think that any parent can home school. You just have to hand in there and work through the tough spots.”
Something they’re doing must be right — Harding’s sister, 17-year-old Katrinnah is now a second-year law student at Faulkner University.