Zechariah Landers has been a Jay County resident his whole life. He graduated from Jay County High School in 2012 and Indiana University in 2016. He then graduated from Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2019 with a Juris Doctor and that same year was admitted to the Indiana Bar.

Zec practiced law from 2019 to 2020 with the firm Coldren, Frantz & Sprunger. In 2020, he joined the Jay County Prosecutor’s Office and became Chief Deputy Prosecutor. While in private practice, Zec litigated a variety of civil and criminal cases in Jay, Wells, Adams, Randolph, Monroe, and Blackford Counties.