William J. Shea (April 4, 1900 – February 5, 1965) was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1959 to 1965.
Born on a farm in Vernon, Connecticut, Shea graduated from that city's Rockville High School and then attended Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C.
[2] In 1933, Shea was elected as a Republican to the position of Manchester town prosecutor.
[2] In 1940, Governor Robert A. Hurley named Shea to the Connecticut Superior Court, where his docket included the criminal prosecutions following the infamous Hartford circus fire of 1944.
[2][3] Shea married Frances Spillane in 1930, with whom he had a daughter and two sons.