People

Claria Horn Shadwick

Member

Claria Horn Shadwick joined the Lexington office of Frost Brown Todd LLC in February 2006. Before joining the Firm, Ms. Shadwick practiced at Strother & Shadwick, representing many of the state’s banks and lending institutions in real estate transactions. During that time she also served as the first Executive Director of the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), a grassroots educational group whose mission is to promote and protect Kentucky’s horse industry.

Ms. Shadwick began her legal career at King & Spalding in Atlanta, Georgia, representing clients such as 3M and General Motors in product liability cases. She returned to Kentucky in 1998 as an Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting a wide variety of financial crimes, including bank fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and tax fraud.

Lexington

Practice Areas
Education
  • Transylvania University
    BA, 1991
    summa cum laude
    Thomas D. Clark Award
    W.T. Young Scholarship
    Holleian Society
    Omicron Delta Kappa
    Phi Alpha Theta

    Vanderbilt University Law School
    J.D., 1994
    Order of the Coif
    Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

              Executive Editorial Board
    King & Spalding Moot Court Competition
              Best Oralist
    American Jurisprudence Award
              Contracts I, Bankruptcy

Courts
  • Kentucky, 1998