Wyatt grew up on a farm in Southampton, Virginia. He earned a BS in Mathematics from Virginia Military Institute where is lettered in Football and was All Southern Conference and All State in Track and Field. He graduated cum laude from Washington & Lee Law School, where he on the law review and was chosen as Chair of the Moot Court Team. He was President of his class at VMI and W&L. 

Before entering the Air Force, he earned a Master’s Degree in Political Science with honors from John Hopkins University. After his stint in the Air Force, he located in Fairfax County and began law practice with a focus on civil litigation but some criminal as well. He served three terms in the House of Delegates. He was the Republican nominee for Attorney General and Governor in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1983 he moved to Richmond where he continues his law practice with Durrette, Arkema, Gerson & Gill PC. 

 He has chaired the Business Litigation Sections of the American Association of Justice and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. He has been frequently listed among the top 100 lawyers in Virginia and appears regularly in Super Lawyers, Legal Elite and carries Matindale-Hubbel’s highest rating. He was inducted with the first class of 33 lawyers into the Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2018. 

He represented a group of Plaintiffs challenging as unconstitutional under the Virginia Constitution the 2011 House and Senate Districts, and after that was unsuccessful, he chaired the Committee of 10 Virginians who drafted and sponsored the Constitutional Amendment creating the Virginia Redistricting Commission.