Patrick Shea has extensive experience in the private and public sectors. As the principal of Patrick A. Shea, PC, he and his firm specialize in business, development, government and environmental law, and are is committed to solving business problems which involve legal, political and economic questions. Mr. Shea maintains Bar membership in the District of Columbia and Utah and is admitted to practice before the 10th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

His academic background includes a BA in 1970 from Stanford University, where he was also a Rhodes Scholar and Student Body President. In 1 972, he completed work on an MA at Oxford University in human sciences and became that school's first graduate of a combined genetics, ethnology and anthropology degree. In 1975, he earned his JD from Harvard Law School, and from 1987 to 1993 served on a graduate school committee at Yale University.

A Utah native, Shea began his legal career as an Associate and Partner at the law firm Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall and McCarthy in 1976. He then served as General Counsel and Assistant Secretary for Standard Communications, Inc, and, from 1993 to 1997, maintained a private practice that included such clients as lntermountain Health Care, Huntsman Chemical Corporation, Kennecott Corporation, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholic Diocese of Utah, Regent Communications, Taco Bell, Salt Lake County Commission, Hermes Corporation and KUTY - as well as Special Legal Counsel for the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.

After living and working in Washington, DC from 1996 to 2000, Shea returned to Salt Lake City as Counsel for the Philadelphia-based law firm, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll; in 2004, he re-opened his private practice.
His public service includes key positions in Washington, DC, beginning in 1975 as Assistant to the Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations. From 1979 to 1980, he was Counsel on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Bill Clinton named him to the President's Commission on Aviation Safety and Security in 1996 after the TWA 800 crash, and one year later named him the National Director of the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of Interior. In 1999, Shea was named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals.

In addition to his work as an attorney, Patrick Shea represents the University of Utah's Department of Physics in implementing an international high-energy particle physics experiment. He was also an Adjunct Professor of agronomy at Kansas State University with a particular focus on native grasses, and an advisor at Westminster College for faculty grants and student scholarships. He has taught at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University on administrative, election, and constitutional law. Presently he is a Research Professor of Biology at the University of Utah.

He is married to Debbie Shea, a Nurse at Huntsman Cancer Institute. They have two sons, Michael and Paul. One dog, Brin and one Granddog, Rocky.