{"age":71,"biography":"## Education\n- Theology A.S., American Baptist College, Jackson, TN Campus\n\n## Family\n- Married, five children\n\n## Career\n- Businessman/Minister\n\n## Committees\n- Member, Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee\n- Member, Finance, Ways, and Means Committee\n- Member, Finance, Ways, and Means Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session\n- Member, Fiscal Review\n- Member, Local Government Committee\n- Member, Local Government Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session\n- Member, Select Committee on Rules\n- Member, Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee of 1st Extraordinary Session\n- Member, Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee\n- Member, Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session\n- Member, Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee\n- Member, Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session\n\n## Community Involvement\n- House Member of the 102nd through 113th General Assemblies\n- Vice-Chair, CMRA/Community Rehab\n- Gathering of Men - Missionary Org.\n- Former Hardeman County Commissioner\n- Former Board Member, National Civil Rights Museum\n- Community Rehabilitation Agencies of TN, Board of Directors\n- TAKE ONE (Offender Support Program), Steering Committee Chair\n- Board Member, West Tennessee Mental Health Facility\n- Hardeman County Chamber of Commerce\n- Lifetime Member of the NAACP\n- Mayor's Character First Program, Brownsville\n- Founding Member of the Shaw Singers\n- Rural West Tennessee Caucus\n- Alzheimer\u2019s Tennessee Advocate\n- Commission on Aging Advocate\n- Tennessee Association of Broadcasters\n- West TN Public Broadcast Board of Directors\n- TN Association of Broadcasters, Member\n- Code Red Ministers Coalition of West TN, Member\n\n## Honors & Awards\n- 2022 NFIB Guardian of Small Business Award\n- 2022 USDA Rural Development \u2013 TN State Black History Month Honoree\n- 2021 Legislator of the Year \u2013 Tennessee Veterinary Medical Assoc.\n- 2020 Hardeman County Commissioners Named Highway 64 the Rep. Johnny W. Shaw Highway\n- 2020 Tennessee Education Association \u2013 Presidential Award for Meritorious Service\n- 2020 The North Star Award \u2013 The Hardeman County Commission for Black History\n- 2019 Southwest TN Development District \u2013 Legislator of the Year\n- 2016 Legislator of the Year, TN Forestry Association\n- 2014 Media History Maker\n- 2013 Legislator of the Year, NBCSL, Corporate Roundtable Benjamin Ruffin Award\n- 2012 Tennessee Association of Broadcasters-Distinguished Service Award\n- Southeast association of Area Agencies on Aging-2012 Aging Impact Award\n- 2008 Big Brothers, Big Sisters Appreciation & Service Award\n- 2005 West Tennessee African American Entrepreneurs, C.A. Rawls Bridge Builder Award\n- 2004 William Henry Miles Outstanding Community Service Award\n- 2003 Jackson Affordable Housing's Jo Helen Imani Award\n- 2002 Legislator of the Year, Tennessee Development District Association\n- 2000 West Tennessee Black Business Association Chairman's Award\n\n## External Links\n- [Legislator Info](https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=H80)","birthdate":"Wed, 05 Jan 1955 00:00:00 GMT","campaigns":[],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Johnny","fullname":"Johnny Shaw","lastname":"Shaw","office_history":[{"campaigns":[],"county":null,"cycles":[{"general":null,"party":"D","primary":null,"term":{"county":null,"electiondate":"2022-11-08","office_county":null,"office_key":"state_house_080","office_title":"State Representative District 80","party":"D","state":"tn","term_end":"2024-12-31","term_start":"2023-01-01"},"year":2023}],"office_key":"state_house_080","office_title":"State Representative District 80","state":"TN","terms":[{"county":null,"electiondate":"2022-11-08","office_county":null,"office_key":"state_house_080","office_title":"State Representative District 80","party":"D","state":"tn","term_end":"2024-12-31","term_start":"2023-01-01"}]}],"terms":[{"county":null,"electiondate":"2022-11-08","office":"state_house_080","state":"tn","term_end":"2024-12-31","term_start":"2023-01-01","title":"State Representative District 80"}],"token":"xDh2S0B9f8"}