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Duncan is the only son of the five children of Frank L. Duncan, a district conservationist for the [[United States Department of Agriculture]]] in Vernon, Texas, and the former Robena Formby, who married Joe King of San Marcos and later Roaring Springs after the death of Frank Duncan. Robena Duncan King was the sister of Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. (1911-1984), an [[attorney]] and [[radio]] station owner from Plainview in Hale County fifty miles north of Lubbock. Formby was also the county judge of Dickens Count and a state senator from Lubbock (then District 30) from 1941 to 1945, and was thereafter an influential member of the Texas Highway Commission. Marshall Formby was also an unsuccessful Democratic [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in 1962, having lost out to [[John Connally|John B. Connally, Jr.]] Duncan was a cousin of the late radio broadcaster Clint Formby of Hereford, also in West Texas.

Duncan is the only son of the five children of Frank L. Duncan, a district conservationist for the [[United States Department of Agriculture]]] in Vernon, Texas, and the former Robena Formby, who married Joe King of San Marcos and later Roaring Springs after the death of Frank Duncan. Robena Duncan King was the sister of Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. (1911-1984), an [[attorney]] and [[radio]] station owner from Plainview in Hale County fifty miles north of Lubbock. Formby was also the county judge of Dickens Count and a state senator from Lubbock (then District 30) from 1941 to 1945, and was thereafter an influential member of the Texas Highway Commission. Marshall Formby was also an unsuccessful Democratic [[Governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in 1962, having lost out to [[John Connally|John B. Connally, Jr.]] Duncan was a cousin of the late radio broadcaster Clint Formby of Hereford, also in West Texas.

Duncan holds bachelor's and law degrees from Texas Tech University.<ref name="cdmlaw.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.cdmlaw.com/profiles/1656616|title=Crenshaw Dupree & Milam, L.L.P., ''Robert L. Duncan'|accessdate=September 21, 2009; no longer accessible}}</ref> He practices law and is a partner at the Lubbock firm of Crenshaw Dupree & Milam, L.L.P. Duncan is married to the former Terri Patterson. He has two children from his first marriage to the former Lynne Stebbins, Lindsey and Matthew Duncan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/5497/robert-duncan#.Uk4ZvRUo45s|title=Senator Robert Duncan's Biography|publisher=Votesmart.org|accessdate=October 3, 2013}}</ref>

Duncan holds bachelor's and law degrees from Texas Tech University.<ref name="cdmlaw.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.cdmlaw.com/profiles/1656616|title=Crenshaw Dupree & Milam, L.L.P., ''Robert L. Duncan'|accessdate=September 21, 2009; no longer accessible}}</ref> He practices law and has been a partner at the Lubbock firm of Crenshaw Dupree & Milam, L.L.P. Duncan is married to the former Terri Patterson. From his first marriage to the former Lynne Stebbins, he has two children, Lindsey and Matthew Duncan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/5497/robert-duncan#.Uk4ZvRUo45s|title=Senator Robert Duncan's Biography|publisher=Votesmart.org|accessdate=October 3, 2013}}</ref>

Duncan is considered a [[Moderate Republican]]. Along with colleagues Bob Deuell of Greenville, John Carona of [[Dallas]], Kevin Eltife of Tyler, and Kel Seliger of [[Amarillo]],  he was named in 2013 among the most [[liberal]] members of the then nineteen Senate Republicans, according to an analysis by Mark P. Jones of  [[Rice University]] in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. Jones also found that these Republicans saw passage of 90 percent of the bills for which they had voted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/enriquerangel/2014-02-24/why-state-sen-kel-seliger-has-republican-primary#.Uxt638uPIfh|author=Enrique Rangel|title=Why state Sen. Kel Seliger has a Republican primary challenger|date=February 24, 2014|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref> In the 2014 primaries, Carona was narrowly defeated, and Deuell narrowly lost a runoff contest with fellow Republican and the more [[conservative]] Bob Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=218&id=176|title=Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014|publisher=enr.sos.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}</ref>

Duncan is considered a [[Moderate Republican]]. Along with colleagues Bob Deuell of Greenville, John Carona of [[Dallas]], Kevin Eltife of Tyler, and Kel Seliger of [[Amarillo]],  he was named in 2013 among the most [[liberal]] members of the then nineteen Senate Republicans, according to an analysis by Mark P. Jones of  [[Rice University]] in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. Jones also found that these Republicans saw passage of 90 percent of the bills for which they had voted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/enriquerangel/2014-02-24/why-state-sen-kel-seliger-has-republican-primary#.Uxt638uPIfh|author=Enrique Rangel|title=Why state Sen. Kel Seliger has a Republican primary challenger|date=February 24, 2014|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=March 8, 2014}}</ref> In the 2014 primaries, Carona was narrowly defeated, and Deuell narrowly lost a runoff contest with fellow Republican and the more [[conservative]] Bob Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=218&id=176|title=Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014|publisher=enr.sos.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}</ref>