J.D. with honors, University of Georgia School of Law
B.A. in English with honors, University of Georgia

State Bar of Georgia
United States Federal Court, Northern District of Georgia

Selected as 2010 Super Lawyers Rising Stars
Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law
Lamar Inn of Court
Associate, Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, PC, Savannah, Georgia
Associate, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

Ms. Shockley was born in Blacksburg, Virginia, but moved to Athens, Georgia at a young age and has been a Georgian ever since. She obtained her BA in English with honors from the University of Georgia in 1997, and after working for several years with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government as an Education Program Specialist; she entered the University of Georgia School of Law. While in law school, Ms. Shockley served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law in which her article, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the First Amendment, Can They Be Friends? was published. Ms. Shockley graduated with honors from Georgia Law in 2002.

Prior to joining Kessler Schwarz & Solomiany, PC in 2007 in order to devote one hundred percent of her practice to family law, Ms. Shockley practiced business litigation and family law with the firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP in Atlanta.

Ms. Shockley is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association and the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. She is also a member of the Family Law and Litigation Sections of the Bar, as well as the Young Lawyers Division. Ms. Shockley has also been a member of the Lamar Inn of Court since 2004.