Jeff Nobles developed type 1 diabetes in 1973, when he was 15. He grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, graduated from Princeton University, and attended Union Theological Seminary of New York City. He moved to Texas after meeting and marrying Angie, a Texan, in New York. He received his law degree from Baylor Law School and moved to Houston in 1986, where he works as an appellate lawyer and Angie works as a therapist. Their daughters, Audrey and Claire, grew up in Houston and have now flown the coop, to work in the software industry in Boston and Sacramento.