Judge Shaw is an Associate Judge for the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.  Elevated in June of 2016, this year marks Judge Shaw’s 26th year serving in the judiciary.  She was initially appointed to the District Court for Prince George’s County and later elevated to the Circuit Court.  While in the Circuit Court, she handled both jury and non-jury civil, family, and criminal trials and served as the County’s Juvenile Judge and as the County’s Criminal Coordinating Judge.

During her tenure, Judge Shaw has worked on many court related projects designed to improve the administration of justice and to educate the community about the judiciary.  She implemented the County’s first Juvenile Drug Court and Re-Entry Court programs and piloted the Court’s Treatment for Mothers of Addicted Newborns (TMAN) docket. She co-chaired a taskforce examining the Circuit Court’s Accessibility to the Latino Community, has served on the Maryland Judiciary’s Public Awareness Committee, the Public Trust and Confidence Committee, Education Committee, the Judiciary’s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Board as well as Maryland’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Council. She currently serves on the Judiciary’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, the Problem-Solving Court’s Subcommittee and the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy.

Prior to her appointment, Judge Shaw was a career prosecutor, having ended her career as Chief of the Homicide and Narcotics Division of the State’s Attorney’s Office in Prince George’s County, Maryland.