Peter Paul Strzok II was born at the Kincheloe AFB Hospital near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to Peter Paul Strzok and Virginia Sue Harris.[1] His father was a longtime member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[18] One of Strzok's uncles is Father James Strzok, SJ, a Jesuit priest doing missionary work in east Africa.[19] The Strzok family hails from Poland. For high school, Strzok attended St. John's Preparatory School in Minnesota, graduating in 1987.[20] He earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1991 as well as a master's degree in 2013.[21][22] After graduating from Georgetown in 1991, Strzok served as an officer in the United States Army before leaving to join the FBI in 1996 as an intelligence research specialist.[8][23] Strzok is married to Melissa Hodgman, an associate director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[24][25][26]