Second-year law student at 17
WSFA 12 News reported on 19 May 2020 that a Montgomery teenager was on track to be the youngest lawyer in Alabama history. Katrinnah Harding was then 17 and already in the second year of a law degree at Faulkner University, the private university in Montgomery whose law school is named for Thomas Goode Jones.
The ABA Journal covered the same family story the following day, reporting that a law graduate aged 19 could become the youngest lawyer in modern Alabama history. Which sibling that particular graduate was is not resolved by the records gathered here, and this page does not guess.
The Brainy Bunch
Kip and Mona Lisa Harding homeschooled ten children in Montgomery, Alabama, and most of them started college by the age of twelve. The family wrote the method up in a book, The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Twelve, which is where the nickname comes from.
That makes Katrinnah's case unusual in a specific way. She is not an isolated prodigy but a member of a system: a household that had already run the same process several times before it reached her, with the paperwork, the community college credits and the university admissions worked out in advance.
Following her brother
Her brother Seth preceded her into law, and that sequence is the whole logic of the family's approach. The first child through a route proves it can be done; the next follows a mapped path with fewer obstacles.
It is also why the Alabama record kept coming up in the coverage. A state's youngest-lawyer record is broken by whoever is admitted to the bar earliest, and a family producing law students in consecutive years is in a position to break it more than once.
What the record leaves open
The reporting gathered here is from a single week in May 2020. It establishes that she was a second-year law student at 17 and that the youngest-lawyer question was live. It does not establish what happened next.
Whether Katrinnah Harding completed the degree, sat the Alabama bar examination, was admitted, or in fact became the state's youngest lawyer is not recorded in these sources. Any page that states one of those outcomes is going beyond the documented record, and this one will not.
What is documented and what is not
Documented: a second year of law school at Faulkner University at 17 in 2020; the WSFA report that she was on track to be the youngest lawyer in Alabama history; the ABA Journal's coverage of a 19-year-old law graduate in the same week; the family of ten children homeschooled by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding; the book that gave them their nickname; and her brother Seth's precedence in law.
Not documented here: her date of birth, her bar examination result, her admission date, her current work, and any test scores or IQ figure. The birth year on this page is derived from her reported age in May 2020.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawsan Ahmed | United States | Broward College's youngest graduate, at 12, in December 2021 | Age 12 |
| Arvind Mahankali | United States | Won the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee at 13 | Age 13 |
| Kerry Close | United States | Won the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee at 13 | Age 13 |
| Shania Muhammad | United States | Langston University's youngest graduate, at 15 | Age 15 |
| Katrinnah Harding | United States | Second-year law student at Faulkner University at 17 | Age 17 |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Second-year law student at Faulkner University at 17 in May 2020
- WSFA reported she was on track to be the youngest lawyer in Alabama history
- One of ten children homeschooled by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding in Montgomery, Alabama
- The family's method was published as the book The Brainy Bunch
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- Date of birth is not published; the birth year here is derived from her reported age
- Whether she completed the degree, passed the bar or was admitted is not recorded
- Which Harding sibling the ABA Journal's 19-year-old graduate refers to is not resolved in this record
Questions people ask about Katrinnah Harding
How old is Katrinnah Harding?
She was reported as 17 in May 2020, which puts her birth year at about 2003. No date of birth appears in these sources.
What is Katrinnah Harding known for?
Being a second-year law student at Faulkner University at the age of 17, on track to become the youngest lawyer in Alabama history.
What is the Brainy Bunch?
The nickname for the Harding family of Montgomery, Alabama: ten children homeschooled by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, most of whom started college by twelve.
Did she become Alabama's youngest lawyer?
The sources used here stop in May 2020 and do not record her bar examination result or admission.
Where did she study law?
Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who else in her family studied law?
Her brother Seth preceded her into law, according to the coverage.
Is Katrinnah Harding on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article is recorded for her. The WSFA and ABA Journal reports are the primary references.
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Sources
- Montgomery teen on track to be youngest lawyer in Alabama history — WSFA 12 News, 2020-05-19
- Law grad, age 19, could become youngest lawyer in modern Alabama history — ABA Journal, 2020-05-20
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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