The Hon. Sheila D.J. Calloway is a judge for the Davidson County Juvenile Court in Tennessee. She was elected to the bench on August 28, 2014.
Prior to her election, Calloway was a magistrate for the Davidson County Juvenile Court, a position to which she was named by the Hon. Betty Adams Green in 2004. Before that, she spent a decade as an assistant public defender with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s Office (1994 to 2004).
Calloway earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Vanderbilt University in 1991. She then completed a J.D. at Vanderbilt Law School in 1994.
She has taught trial advocacy, juvenile law, and criminal justice as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School, Belmont University College of Law, and American Baptist College.
Calloway is a recipient of the Hall of Fame Award from the Tennessee Justice Center (2018), the Human Relations Award from Community Nashville (2017), the Community Award from Alignment Nashville (2016), and the Justice A.A. Birch Outstanding Service Award from the Napier-Looby Bar Foundation (2014).
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Calloway relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1987.
She is registered as a Democrat.