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Shannon O. Louden
slouden@loudenlegal.com
While following her father’s professional path, Ms. Louden has blazed her own trail and established a reputation as an outstanding matrimonial lawyer and mediator. Born in Florida in 1963 and a lawyer since 1993, she practiced litigation with a large Connecticut firm prior to joining her father’s firm in 1996.
Ms. Louden is a 1985 graduate of Swarthmore College, where she was president of her class. After college she spent five years in Washington, D.C., where she was on a congressional staff and a personal assistant to Madeleine Albright during the 1988 presidential campaign. Ms. Louden attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an editor of a law journal.
While a strong advocate in litigation, Ms. Louden has focused on a nonadversarial approach to divorce. She has been certified as a mediator by the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation and as a collaborative lawyer by the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Ms. Louden has served on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar, as an officer of the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation, and, in 2002, was honored as a “New Leader of the Law” in Connecticut.
Fluent in Spanish, Ms. Louden is married to a science teacher, and they and their son reside in Andover.