John Shakow has been a member of the Board since 2008, and is currently Chair of the Development Committee. John is the father of excellent twin college-age kids, a native Washingtonian, and an enthusiastic but mediocre tennis player.

He is a partner at King & Spalding (where he has been his entire legal career), specializing in pharmaceutical pricing matters.

While John has not been a singer for many, many years, at ten years old in 1979 he joined what was to become The Washington Chorus to sing Berlioz’s Te Deum in a performance at Catholic University. That experience set him on a path of great affection for choral music in general, and for TWC in particular. He is very grateful for his association with such an important and inspiring Washington cultural institution.