N. Hadley Heindel III  grew up in St Petersburg Florida. He attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, graduating in 1982. He is an alumnus of Emory University School of Medicine and received his six consecutive years of Residency Training at the Emory Affiliated Hospitals in Atlanta, Georgia. He became Board Certified in Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery in 1992. He has lived and practiced in the Newnan area since 1993. He is the husband of Susan and proud father of Hadley IV, Connor, and Catherine.