Anault earned his J.D. from Washington University School of Law, where he served as a teaching assistant for the Introduction to U.S. Law and Methods course. During law school, Anault served as a student attorney with the Immigration Law Clinic and represented clients in asylum and removal defense matters. He also spent a summer as a summer associate at Dinsmore.

Prior to law school, Anault taught at James Madison University and Bridgewater College in Virginia and previously worked as a bilingual communication assistant at the International Fertilizer Development Center in Accra, Ghana. Fluent in French, Anault holds a Master of Arts in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Arts in French with a minor in Political Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing soccer and has competed at the semi-professional level.