He graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Minor in History. Mr. Shannon earned his doctorate of law, Cum Laude, from Duquesne University School of Law in 2013 where he served as a senior staff editor for the Duquesne Law Review and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Administrative Law. While in law school, Mr. Shannon clerked for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Debra M. Todd.