James Gibbons-Shapiro, M.D. ( He/Him/His )

James Gibbons-Shapiro grew up in San Jose, attended Gunderson High School, Yale University, and UCLA Law School. He has worked at the Santa Clara County DA’s Office for 26 years. He has prosecuted almost every kind of case, and in 2003 won the Felony Trial Attorney of the year award for his work on the Sexual Assault Team. Currently he is one of the six Assistant DA’s that manage the trial and other teams in the DA’s Office. He supervises the Family Violence Team, The Crime Strategies Unit (using data analytics and information sharing to solve more crimes and prosecute them better), the Victim Services Unit, the High-Tech Crimes Team, and the Complaints Team (that reviews police report and files criminal cases in court). He chairs the County’s Domestic Violence Death Review Team, and the annual efforts to update and revise the County’s Domestic Violence Protocol for Law Enforcement and the Child Abuse Protocol for Law Enforcement. In 2021 he and others led the successful effort to bring together child sexual assault medical examinations, child forensic interviewing, victim advocacy, social services, and more under one roof at the new Children’s Advocacy Center. Before becoming the Chair of the CAPC, he was the Chair of the CAPC’s Symposium Committee.