Shanta owens biography

Shanta' Owens (Democratic Party) is a judge of the Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit Place 2.
She is a 1999 graduate of Alabama State University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.
Shanta Owens has been a district criminal judge since her election in 2008.

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Shanta' Owens

Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit Place 2

Tenure

Term ends

Years in position

Prior offices

Jefferson County District Court

Elections and appointments

Shanta' Owens (Democratic Party) is a judge of the Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit Place 2. She assumed office on January 31, 2019. Her current term ends on January 18, 2027.

Owens (Democratic Party) ran for re-election for judge of the Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit Place 2. She won in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Gov.Kay Ivey (R) appointed Owens in January 2019 to fill the position previously held by Laura Petro.^[1]

Prior to her appointment to the Alabama 10th Judicial Circuit, Owens was a judge for the Jefferson County District Court in Alabama.^[2] She joined the court in 2008 and successfully ran for re-election in 2014.^[3]^[4]

Elections

2020

See also: Municipal elections in Jefferson County, Alabama (2020)

General election

Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Shanta' O

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Twin judges: Shera Grant joins sister on the bench

The lives of identical twin sisters Shera Grant and Shanta Owens have often mirrored each other.

Both of the Birmingham natives graduated from Alabama State University. Both graduated from law school at Louisiana State University. While Grant went to Atlanta after law school and Owens came back to Birmingham, both ended up with jobs as prosecutors.

Their girls are both 6 years old and were born four months apart. Their sons are 3 years old and also born four months apart. Their husbands, who they married two months apart in 2003, also have been best friends since kindergarten.

Shanta has been a district court judge since her election in 2008. She won a second term and is up for re-election in 2020.

Now Shera too is a district court judge after Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday appointed her to fill the seat of Jack Lowther.

"Ms. Grant is highly qualified, motivated and prepared to be a district judge," according to a statement from Jennifer Ardis, communications director for Bentley. "The governor's

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Two of a kind: LSU Law alumni hold unique claim to fame as the only two sets of twins in U.S. to serve on same district court

LSU Law proudly counts among its alumni scores of successful attorneys, elected officials, business leaders, and distinguished members of the judiciary — including federal district judges, state judges, Louisiana district attorneys, and six of the seven current judges on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

But three LSU Law alumni judges have a very unique claim to fame that might make you do a double take.

Twins Ron and Don Johnson (’82) are the only brothers to simultaneously serve on the Baton Rouge-based 19th Judicial District Court, the only twin brothers to serve on any Louisiana district court, and just the second set of twins nationally to serve on a district court at the same time. The others are identical twin sisters Shera Grant and Shanta Owens, who both graduated from LSU Law in 2002 and sit on the 10th Judicial Circuit in Jefferson County, Alabama.

We recently caught up with both sets of twins to talk about their paths to the bench and their expe