Nina Shea
{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1953)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name =
| image = Nina Shea official photo.jpg
| office = Commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
| term_start = June 1999
| term_end = March 2012
Vice Chair: 2003–2007
| appointer = Dennis Hastert
John Boehner
| president = Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
| predecessor =
| successor =
| birth_name = Nina Hope Shea
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|08|17}}
| birth_place =
| party = Republican
| otherparty =
| spouse = Adam Meyerson
| residence =
| education = Smith College
American University (JD)
| occupation =
}}
Nina Hope Shea (born August 17, 1953)United States Public Records, 1970–2009 (Washington DC, 2001) is an American international human rights lawyer and international Christian religious freedom advocate.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBxdn4gI9X0C&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA226 |title=Radical Islam's rules: the worldwide spread of extreme Shari'a law |author=Paul A. Marshall |year=2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=9780742543621 |access-date=June 29, 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15NpAEv8c-MC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA383 |title=The new crusades: constructing the Muslim enemy|author=Emran Qureshi, Michael Anthony Sells |year=2003|publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231126670|access-date=June 29, 2011}}
Early life
A native of Pennsylvania, Shea graduated cum laude from Smith College, and graduated from the Washington College of Law of American University.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/14/style/adam-meyerson-weds-nina-shea.html |title=Adam Meyerson Weds Nina Shea |work=The New York Times |date=September 14, 1986 |access-date=June 29, 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3957894/Freedom-fighter-meet-the-very.html |title=Freedom fighter: meet the 'very focused, and tough' Nina Shea |work=National Review|date=January 31, 2005 |access-date=June 29, 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/september/18.52.html?start=2 |title=The Daniel of Religious Rights |work=Christianity Today |date=August 26, 2005 |author=Sheryl Henderson Blunt |access-date=June 29, 2011}} Shea is Catholic.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkIvbxefBNsC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA368 |title=Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights |author=Allen Hertzke |year=2006 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780742547322 |access-date=June 29, 2011}}
Shea is married to Adam Meyerson, president of The Philanthropy Roundtable. They have three sons.
Career
She is a former director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House, an office which she had helped found in 1986 as the Puebla Institute.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysYsE9jZmvgC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA49 |title=Examination of a fundamental human right: the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report: hearing |publisher=DIANE |isbn=9781422321089 |access-date=June 29, 2011}} She served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2012.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCYK7X_SqHIC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA8521 |title=Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt. 6, May 9, 2001 to May 21, 2001|date= October 2005|author=Congress |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |isbn=9780160729669|access-date=June 29, 2011}}[https://www.uscirf.gov/about-uscirf/former-commissioners Former Commissioners][https://web.archive.org/web/20120322230505/http://www.uscirf.gov/about-uscirf/225.html Archived Commissioner bio] She has been a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute since November 2006, and directs the Center for Religious Freedom there.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYSA2uew3CUC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA361 |title=International Religious Freedom (2010): Annual Report to Congress|author=Leonard Leo |publisher=DIANE |isbn=9781437944396|access-date=June 29, 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9P3nTVX4HisC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA19 |title=Saudi Arabia: friend or foe in the war on terror?; hearing|publisher=DIANE |isbn=9781422323731|access-date=June 29, 2011}} In January 2009, she was appointed as a commissioner on the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO.
She was appointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights.
Shea authored In the Lion's Den (1997) on anti-Christian discrimination. Shea is also the co-author of Silenced: How Apostasy & Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide (2011).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d67YAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Nina+Shea%22 |title=In the lion's den: a shocking account of persecution and martyrdom of Christians today & how we should respond|publisher= Broadman & Holman Publishers|isbn=0805463577|year=1997 |author=Nina Shea |access-date=June 29, 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-BXZB6JmeQC&q=%22Nina+Shea%22&pg=PA52 |title=Futurefish 2001: Futurefish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Tackle Asian Markets, the Can-Am Salmon Treaty, and Micronesian Seas, 1997–2001 |author=C. D. Bay-Hansen |year=2002 |publisher=Trafford |isbn=9781553692935 |access-date=June 29, 2011}}
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120322230505/http://www.uscirf.gov/about-uscirf/225.html Archived Commissioner bio]
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Category:Washington College of Law alumni
Category:American human rights activists
Category:American women human rights activists
Category:American women lawyers