Professional/Civic Activity

Shelby is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and the Arbitration Committee of the US Council on International Business. He is a past chair of the Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution practice group of the World Law Group, a network of 21,000 lawyers in 59 law firms in 89 countries. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America (since 2001) including in the category of international commercial arbitration (since 2021) and as an Atlanta Super Lawyer (since 2013). In 2011 and 2014, he was named a BTI Client Service All-Star.

Shelby is the immediate past chair of the Atlanta Sister Cities Commission. The commission coordinates work with Atlanta’s 17 sister cities: Brussels, Bucharest, Cotonou, Daegu, Fukuoka, Lagos, Montego Bay, Newcastle, Nuremberg, Olympia, Rio de Janeiro, Port of Spain, Ra’anana, Salcedo, Taipei, Tbilisi and Toulouse. In 2012 and 2013, Shelby chaired the Global Network Foundation, an Atlanta-based organization. The foundation conducts annual leadership academies in Istanbul, the Middle East and Southeastern Asia.

Boards and Bar and Civic Affiliations
Current
  • American Bar Foundation (Member)
  • Atlanta Bar Association (Member)
  • Atlanta International Arbitration Society (Board Member)
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Fellow)
  • Chattanooga Bar Foundation (Member)
  • ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR (Member)
  • International Bar Association (Member)
  • Rollins (Emory University) School of Public Health Dean’s Advisory Council (Member)
  • State Bar of Georgia (Member)
  • Tennessee Bar Foundation (Member)
  • United States Council on International Business (Arbitration Committee Member)

 

Past
  • ABA Business Law Today (Editorial Board Member)
  • Advisory Group on Reduction of Cost and Delay – U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (Chair)
  • Atlanta Sister Cities Commission (Chair)
  • Audubon Society of Chattanooga (Board Member)
  • Boys’ Club of Chattanooga (Board Member)
  • Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce (Board Member)
  • Chattanooga Bar Association (Board Member, President)
  • Chattanooga Chapter of the American Heart Association (Board Member)
  • Culverhouse (University of Alabama) College of Commerce International Business Advisory Board (Member)
  • Georgia State University College of Law Board of Visitors
  • Global Network Foundation (Board Member, Corporate Secretary and Chair)
  • Hamilton County (Tennessee) Metro Charter Study Commission (General Counsel)
  • Kiwanis Club of Chattanooga (Board Member)
  • Lookout Rowing Club (Board Member)
  • Society of International Business Fellows (Board Member)
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Vestry Member and Senior Warden)
  • Tennessee Bar Association Special Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (Chair)
  • Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution (Chair)
  • Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on ADR (Chair)
  • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chancellor's Roundtable
  • Urban League of Chattanooga (General Counsel)