Charles Alexander Shaw (December 31, 1944 – April 12, 2020) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 9/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 17/year
Missouri Eastern District Court · 1993–2020
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- African American
Prior employment
- Circuit Court of Missouri, Twenty-Second Judicial CircuitJudge · 1987–1993
Eastern District of MissouriAssistant U.S. attorney · 1980–1987- Private practice, St. Louis, Missouri1976–1980
Appellate Branch, Division of Enforcement, National Labor Relations BoardAttorney · 1974–1976
Appointments
1993–2020 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Catholic University of America, Columbus School of LawJ.D. · 1974
- University of MissouriM.B.A. · 1971
- Harris-Stowe State CollegeB.A. · 1966