Kent grew up in Orlando, where he graduated from Edgewater High School. Kent graduated with honors from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before attending Stetson University College of Law, where he also graduated with honors.
Before beginning his career with GrayRobinson, Kent served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, U.S. District Court judge and then served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Paul H. Roney, senior and former chief judge of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.