Vida Johnson

Vida Johnson
Born	Vida B. Johnson
Residence	Washington, District of Columbia
Nationality	American
Education	University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) New York University School of Law (J.D.)
Occupation	Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center; Criminal Defense Attorney
Website	Georgetown Law Biography

Vida B. Johnson is an American criminal defense attorney and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Johnson works in the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic and Criminal Justice Clinic, and supervises attorneys in the E. Barrett Prettyman Post-Graduate Fellowship Program. Johnson regularly writes in the area of criminal law and procedure.

Johnson's grandfather, Dr. Reverend Allen Johnson, was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. In 1967, the Johnson family home in Laurel, Mississippi was bombed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Johnson and his family were targeted because he was an activist in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Vida Johnson was raised in San Diego, California. Johnson went to college at the University of California at Berkeley. Johnson earned her degree in American History. Johnson went on to law school at New York University School of Law. Johnson went to law school wanting to be a civil rights lawyer, following in the footsteps of her grandfather. After her first year of law school, Johnson worked at the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center where she worked on class-action lawsuits on behalf of death row inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. After her second summer, she interned at the San Francisco public defender's office. During her final year of law school, she worked in the Juvenile Defense Clinic at NYU Law. After law school, Johnson was an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow at Georgetown Law. As a fellow, she represented indigent adults in the D.C. Superior Court and supervised students in the Criminal Justice Clinic.

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