Dcn. Mike is a native of Louisville, Ky., where most of his family still lives. He has been married to his wife Jackie since 1976. They have two adult children and two grandchildren. Mike earned a journalism degree from Eastern Kentucky University in 1975. He retired in June 2019 after three careers, including his last doing communications for the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky. He was ordained a permanent deacon in the Lexington Diocese in June 2012.