Nerren is the son of Fenely Smith, a former district chief for the fire department in [[Bossier City]], and Connee Smith, a retired employee of the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department. He graduated in 1981 from Haughton High School in Haughton in south Bossier Parish.<ref name=prosecutor/> Nerren received his undergraduate degree in 1989 from Louisiana State University in Shreveport and his [[Juris Doctorate]] in 1994, at the age of thirty-one, from the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. He is a former president of the Bossier Bar Association and Bossier Dixie Baseball.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.26jdc.com/judges.html|title=Judge Mike Nerren|publisher=26jdc.com |accessdate=April 24, 2014, information no longer on-line.</ref> | Nerren is the son of Fenely Smith, a former district chief for the fire department in [[Bossier City]], and Connee Smith, a retired employee of the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department. He graduated in 1981 from Haughton High School in Haughton in south Bossier Parish.<ref name=prosecutor/> Nerren received his undergraduate degree in 1989 from Louisiana State University in Shreveport and his [[Juris Doctorate]] in 1994, at the age of thirty-one, from the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. He is a former president of the Bossier Bar Association and Bossier Dixie Baseball.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.26jdc.com/judges.html|title=Judge Mike Nerren|publisher=26jdc.com |accessdate=April 24, 2014, information no longer on-line.</ref> |