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Shawn LaGrua's Biography

Contact Information

Office


General

Court

330 Capitol Avenue, Southeast
1st Floor, Suite 1100
Atlanta, GA 30334

Full Name:

Shawn Ellen LaGrua

Gender:

Female

Family:

Husband: Chris; Children: 2 Step-sons

JD, College of Law, Georgia State University, 1984-1987

BA, Political Science, University of Georgia, 1980-1984

Justice, Georgia State Supreme Court, 2021-present

Member, Legislative Support Team, Accountability Court and Bench and Bar Committees

Vice Chair, Legislative Support Team, the Access to Fairness and Justice Committee

Chair, Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold D. Melton’s COVID-19 Task Force

President, Council of Superior Court Judges, 2019-2020

Adjunct Professor of Advanced Evidence and Litigation, Georgia State University College of Law

Judge, Superior Court of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit, 2010-2021

Inspector General, Georgia Secretary of State, 2007-2010

Solicitor General, DeKalb County, Georgia, 2004-2007

Chief Assistant District Attorney, Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, 1999-2001

Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, 1992-1999

Senior Assistant District Attorney, DeKalb County, Georgia, 1987-1990

Alumna Member, Leadership Atlanta, 2012-present

Member, Criminal Justice Reform Sub-Committee

Founding Member/ Former Chair, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, Judicial Application Review Committee

Member, Georgia Child Support Commission

Chair, Judicial Council’s Process Servers Committee

Member, Judicial Nominating Commission

Former Chair, Judicial Section of the State Bar of Georgia

Master, Lamar Inn of Court

Master, Logan E. Bleckley Inn of Court

Vice Chair, Leadership Atlanta, Criminal Justice Day, 2014-2015; 2019

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