4 Yrs
U.S. Army Service
2007
Deployed to Iraq
15 Yrs
District 99 Resident
4
Children in Local Schools
A LIFE OF SERVICE
"If not me, then who?"
Photo: Shawn returning home after his deployment to Iraq, 2008.
In September 2001, Shawn was in his first year of law school in St. Louis when he watched the planes hit the World Trade Center.
He made the decision then and there to volunteer for the U.S. military. The Army offered him a commission, and he accepted.
He served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Office at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and in 2007 deployed with the Third Infantry Division to Iraq as part of the troop surge.
While there, he established and led the Military Justice Office and served as the lead prosecutor for one of the busiest jurisdictions in the U.S. Army.
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Meritorious Service Medal
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Two Army Commendation Medals
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Iraq Campaign Medal
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Honorably Discharged, Captain
"For me, being able to wear our country's uniform has been a pinnacle of my adult life."
- SHAWN PINKSTON
FROM THE COURTROOM TO THE COMMUNITY
Fighting for people who need someone in their corner.
After his discharge, Shawn founded the Pinkston Law Firm, where he represents individuals harmed by medical negligence and nursing home abuse.
Before law school, he served as Communications Director for a U.S. Congressman and for the President of the Kentucky State Senate.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Berea College and his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law. He is licensed to practice in South Carolina, Georgia, and Missouri.
Shawn was nominated by Gov. Henry McMaster to serve on the Board of Trustees for the South Carolina Veterans’ Trust Fund on March 22, 2022. His nomination was unanimously approved by the State Senate. Photo with Secretary of the S.C. Department of Veterans Affairs Major General (Ret.) William F. Grimsley.
Shawn Pinkston:
A neighbor who shows up.
Shawn and his wife Andrea live off Clements Ferry Road with their four children. He's a former member of the Rotary and Exchange Clubs of Daniel Island, a youth soccer coach, and a regular at community meetings long before this campaign started.
He's competed in Spartan races and triathlons. He's knocked on hundreds of doors. The issues driving this race — unmanaged growth, dangerous roads, the cost of living — are not abstract to him.
He navigates them every day alongside the neighbors he hopes to represent.