Shannon E. French is professor of philosophy and law at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).
She joined the faculty at CWRU in 2008 after teaching for 11 years at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, where she was associate chair of the division of Leadership, Ethics, and Law. At CWRU, she served as the Inamori Professor in Ethics and director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence for 17 years, before choosing to step away from that role at the end of 2025. She designed and currently directs the first MA program in military ethics in the US at CWRU.