Education
Trinity College.
Trinity College.
Shaw was an alumnus of the Dominica Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was a career civil servant, rising to the post of Cabinet Secretary in 1977, and retiring in 1990. Shaw was elected to a five-year term as President by the House of Assembly on 2 October 1998, as the candidate of the United Workers" Party (UWP).
The secret ballot, party-line vote was 18-13.
He took office on October 6, 1998, following the expiration of President Crispin Sorhaindo"s single five-year term. Shaw left office on 1 October 2003, and was succeeded by Nicholas Liverpool.
He died on 2 December 2013 at the age of 83.
