John Shadegg [SEP] educated at
Phoenix and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona at Tucson in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona Law School, also in Tucson, in 1975. He served in the Arizona Air National Guard from 1969 to 1975.
In 1975, he went to work for the law firm of Treon, Warnicke, Dann and Roush. Shadegg. In 1982, Shadegg led the re-election campaign of Robert Corbin, for Arizona Attorney General. The election was challenged with claims that Corbin buried the
for rejecting the manuscript after failing to respond to their requests for editorial assistance.
In 1986, he published a memoir: "Arizona Politics: The Struggle to End One-Party Rule".
Shadegg's papers are held at the Arizona Historical Foundation in Tempe.
Family and death.
Shadegg married Eugenia Kerr, who died in 1988. They had four children, Stephen David Shadegg (1947–2009), who died of a heart attack while camping in the northern Arizona mountains, and John Barden Shadegg, Cynthia