Jordan Lockett was born in Fort Hood, Texas, to two military parents and grew up in Washington DC. Lockett earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Legal Studies from Temple University and later a law degree from John Marshall Law School. He studied abroad in Cape Town, South Africa where he studied the South African Constitution under the tutelage of one of its original drafters, Justice Zak Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He later studied International Intellectual Property and International entertainment Law in Tokyo under Ari Staiman, then General Counsel of Sega Corporation and now the President and CEO of Sega Amusement Works. Currently, Lockett is a candidate for the New York and California bar.