Scott Wagner graduated from Fordham Law School in May 2010. He sat for the New York State Bar exam in July, which he passed. Scott received his Bachelor of Arts and Science in religious studies from the University of Dayton. After college, he spent three years living in New York, learning the art of screenwriting and a year and six months working in the locations department of the television show: Law and Order Criminal Intent. He left the show to teach English for nine months at a University in Bangalore India.
In recognition of Scott's commitment and contribution to individuals beyond Fordham Law School, Scott received the Donald Magnetti Award in May 2010. Scott was also Fordham Law School's Archibald Murray Public Service Award, Valedictorian for 2010, an honor given to the graduating student who recorded the highest number of public service hours while in law school.
At Fordham, Scott was the President and a three year member of the student group Universal Jurisdiction, through which he designed, coordinated, and lead five human rights focused delegations to Nicaragua and one to the Dominican Republic. Beyond leading delegations, Scott helped to create a solar-powered computer program in a rural coffee village, construct a website for an association of chronically ill sugarcane workers (http://asochivida.org), write and direct a play in the only center in Nicaragua designed to rehabilitate young, female victims of sexual abuse, and encouraged Fordham for the last two years to purchase tee shirts for its Public Service Day from a women-owned cooperative in Nicaragua.