Shannon O'Fallon

Shannon O’Fallon is a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Oregon Department of Justice, General Counsel Division.  She joined Oregon DOJ in 2002, first working in the Natural Resources Section of the General Counsel Division advising natural resources agencies, before transitioning to the Health and Human Services Section.  For years Shannon was contact counsel for the Oregon Health Authority’s (OHA) public health division, which included the state’s medical marijuana program. When cannabis was legalized in Oregon in 2014, Shannon worked closely with the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) and OHA in implementing the new law and standing up a new regulatory system.  She continues, along with other attorneys, to advise OLCC and its adult-use cannabis system. In addition to advising OLCC, Shannon continues to advise OHA and serves as the agency’s lead counsel. 

Prior to joining the Oregon DOJ, from 1994 to 2000 Shannon worked in the Alaska Attorney General’s office in Juneau, advising both natural resources agencies and the Department of Health and Social Services, serving in a general counsel role as well as representing her departments in civil and administrative proceedings and appeals. 

Shannon graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1993 and got her B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1990.  She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and enjoys spending time outdoors in the amazing Pacific Northwest.