Rudy was born on the first day of winter in Baltimore, MD, in 1965, and grew up in Linthicum, a suburb south of Baltimore. His father, Rudolph John Eisenzopf Jr., (Sonny) was an electrician, and his mother, Patricia Ann Eisenzopf, (née Kellogg), worked at Westinghouse Electric in Linthicum. He has one sister, Dawn Michelle Eisenzopf. Rudy graduated from Andover High School in 1983. After high school he served his country honorably in the United States Air Force at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, NM. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulural Science from North Carolina State University in 1996. He met his wife, Anna (née Kennedy), while teaching Hope Mills and Fayetteville, NC, and his daughter Caitlin was born there. He and his wife and daughter moved to south Louisiana in August of 2005, and still resides in Youngsville, a suburb of Lafayette, LA with Anna and Caitlin, and their three dogs, Jake, Bell, and Itty-Bitty.
