Noel Alden: Farmer, Lawyer, Coach

Interview and story by Grant Pepper of Knox Pages

Noel Alden values justice, equality, family and hard work. The lawyer and dairy farmer serves as legal counsel for area townships, villages and property owners’ associations and as a high-school mock trial coach and a member of several local non-profit boards. A lifelong conservative, he’s been vocal this year about his disdain for the current presidential administration – as well as his support for social justice movements like Black Lives Matter. It’s cost him friendships and clients. He says none of that matters. His Ohio Values photo features him and his youngest son, Russell, wrestling a cow back to his Danville farm, a moment of chaos and connection, just after sunrise.