James Gregory Shaw (born March 21, 1957) is an American lawyer and an associate justice of the
Alabama Supreme Court. He is a member of the
Republican Party. He was elected in 2008 to the seat of retiring Justice
Harold See
Harold Frend See, Jr. (born November 7, 1943) is a legal scholar and was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1997 to 2009. The son of Harold F. See, Sr., and Corinne See, he was born at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in ...
. He was sworn into office in 2009.
He was re-elected in 2014. Prior to his election to the Supreme Court he served on the
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
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from 2001 to 2009. He is married to former Alabama State Auditor
Samantha Shaw.
He has a
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...
degree from
Auburn University and a
Juris Doctor from
Cumberland School of Law
Cumberland School of Law is an American Bar Association, ABA accredited law school at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1847 at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee and is the 11th oldest law schoo ...
and a
Master of Laws
A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: ' or ') is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject. In mos ...
from the
University of Virginia School of Law. Earlier in his career he worked for two other members of the
Alabama Supreme Court, serving as Staff Attorney for Justice
Janie L. Shores in 1984 and then joining the staff of Justice Gorman Houston in 1985.
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1957 births
Living people
Methodists from Alabama
Alabama Republicans
Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama
Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama
Spouses of Alabama politicians
Auburn University alumni
Cumberland School of Law alumni
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges
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