#Goodstein was born in July 1955 in South Carolina. She is the daughter of Joseph M. Schafer and Helen Schafer Mast. Her uncle was Alan Schafer, a prominent #Jewish-American businessman who founded the South of the Border roadside attraction near Dillon, South Carolina, where she was born. Goodstein earned her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978 and her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1981


