Shon Robert Hopwood was born on June 11,1975 and is an American appellate lawyer and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
23 Facts About Shon Hopwood
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Shon Hopwood is the son of Robert Mark Shon Hopwood and Becky Richards, who raised him in a Christian home.
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Shon Hopwood grew up in David City, Nebraska, approximately an hour's drive northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Shon Hopwood was a high school basketball standout, earning himself a scholarship to Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska.
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Shon Hopwood almost died from acute pancreatitis in a Bahrain hospital, which prompted his discharge from the Navy.
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Shon Hopwood pleaded guilty on October 28,1998, to robbing several banks in Nebraska.
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Shon Hopwood served his prison sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin.
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Shon Hopwood won honorable mention in the PEN American Center 2008 Prison Writing contest.
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Shon Hopwood was released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on April 9,2009.
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Shon Hopwood holds a Bachelor of Science from Bellevue University in Bellevue, Nebraska, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was a Gates Public Service Law Scholar.
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Shon Hopwood served as a law clerk for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after he graduated from law school.
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On September 4,2014, the Supreme Court of Washington approved the recommendation made by the Character and Fitness Committee of the Washington State Bar Association, permitting Shon Hopwood to take the Washington bar examination, and to become an attorney if he passed.
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In 2015, Shon Hopwood became a licensed lawyer in the state of Washington.
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In 2015, Shon Hopwood accepted a position as a graduate teaching fellow in Georgetown University Law Center's Appellate Litigation Clinic, where he was pursuing a Master of Laws degree.
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In 2017, Shon Hopwood became a professor of law at Georgetown.
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Shon Hopwood hired 2020 Georgetown Law graduate Tiffany Trump as his research assistant.
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In September 2023, Shon Hopwood was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife.
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Shon Hopwood was charged with four counts of misdemeanor assault, and the court granted him pretrial release.
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Shon Hopwood has not been teaching since his September 2023 arrest.
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Shon Hopwood is a criminal justice advocate, and he has written about the need for federal sentencing and prison reform.
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Shon Hopwood told an ACLU event that his home state of Nebraska should reform sentencing guidelines for prisoners, keep good time credits and not build a new prison.
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Shon Hopwood has been profiled by The New York Times, NPR, and other media.
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Shon Hopwood was featured on a 60 Minutes segment in 2017 and repeated in 2019, where he was interviewed by Steve Kroft.