Shannon M. Weigel graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in May of 2006 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. In May of 2009, she received her Juris Doctor from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduation, she moved to Hawaii where she was admitted to her first bar and worked as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney before starting her own practice. In June of 2010 she returned to her home state of Colorado and was admitted to the Colorado bar in October of 2010.