Roy Bartholomew Sonora CA went to a Catholic High School and got his diploma there. After he graduated, it only took him two years to get his first job in the electrical field. Roy Bartholomew knew when he was young that he would go into engineering because he was always interested in how things work.

Even in other parts of his life, he thought things through before deciding what to do. The age of digital technology and advanced electrical systems would suit his practical nature, which is more interested in what works than what might work.

Roy Bartholomew got his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his master's degree in engineering management from Arizona State University.