Shannon Locke

After working at a Fortune 500 company for three years, Shannon Locke attended the University of Arizona Law School and graduated in 2002. He became a prosecutor at the Pima County Attorney’s Office. As an Assistant County Attorney in the Pima County Attorney’s Office, he prosecuted for the Misdemeanor Unit, the Vehicular Offenses Unit, the Property Crimes Unit, and the Gang Unit. During his time with the Pima County Attorney’s Office, Mr. Locke first-chaired one hundred jury trials ranging from misdemeanors to gang crime. In 2005, Mr. Locke was the only prosecutor in Pima County to successfully first-chair two first-degree murder trials.

After moving to San Antonio, Texas he worked in the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office. There, he prosecuted financial crimes in the White Collar Crime Unit. He left the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office more than ten years ago before moving on to private practice.

Bar Admissions:

• Arizona, 2002
• Texas, 2005
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 2006

• University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona J.D.
• Honors: National Moot Court Team, 2001 – 2002
• Honors: Robert Moorman Bankruptcy Scholarship, 2001 – 2002
• Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota B.A. in History with Honors

Shannon Locke is a Board Certified Criminal Defense Attorney who believes deeply in putting his client’s needs at the center of his representation. In the fifteen years he has practiced criminal law Mr. Locke has tried cases ranging from Murder to Aggravated Assault, Possession with Intent to Deliver, to DWI to Domestic Violence. While based in San Antonio, TX Mr. Locke has practiced in a number of Texas counties and has tried cases in Hays, Kendall, Gillespie, and Bexar County and dismissed cases in counties such as San Patricio County, Guadalupe, Nueces, Kerr and Comal County.