Shannon Wallace Is One Of UGA's 40 Under 40

Shannon Wallace, the district attorney for the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit, has been named to the class of 2014 for the University of Georgia Alumni Association’s 40 Under 40.

The university’s Alumni Association launched the program in 2011 ”to recognize exceptional young alumni who are achieving great success in their professional and personal endeavors,” according to its website.

Nominations open each spring and honorees are announced mid-summer. Wallace, who is serving in her first term as district attorney, will be recognized among other class members during the 40 Under 40 Luncheon.

Last year, Wallace, 37, was also named in Georgia Trend magazine’s 2013 Forty Under Forty list.

Wallace was elected as district attorney for the Circuit, which serves only Cherokee County, in 2012 after long-time District Attorney Garry Moss decided to retire.

Before that, she served as assistant district attorney between 2008 and 2012. Before coming to Cherokee, she served as an assistant district attorney for the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit between 2002 and 2008.

She received her bachelor’s in criminal justice and psychology from the University of Georgia in 1999 and completed UGA’s School of Law in 2002.

She and husband Kyle live in Woodstock and have two children.