Sam grew up on his family farm south of Oxford, Pennsylvania.  He attended the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, where he obtained a B.A. in Anthropology and a B.A. in Philosophy, and met his wife, Stephanie Burke.  Sam graduated in 2009, thereafter beginning to work as a legal secretary and real estate settlement clerk for his father, Sam Goodley, Jr., at Byler, Goodley, and Winkle, PC.  Sam then attended Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, graduating in 2015, after which he and Steph moved back to the family farm in Oxford, and Sam went back to work for his father’s firm.  Sam and Steph were married on the farm in 2018.