Undersheriff Clint Dohmen was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and was raised in both New Jersey and Washington State. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, with a major in Management in 1992. While in college, Undersheriff Dohmen studied abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan, and prior to a career in law enforcement, he lived and worked in Kyoto, Japan, for five years.