Kristi Haskins Johnson

Professional career

• Kristi Haskins Johnson is a federal judge serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed on December 1, 2020 by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a 53–43 vote
• Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of Mississippi, 2014-2020
• Law clerk, Hon. Leslie H. Southwick, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2010-2011
• Adjunct professor of legal writing, Mississippi College School of Law, 2010
• Law clerk, Hon. Sharion H. Aycock, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, 2008-2010
• First woman federal judge in the Southern District of Mississippi
• The first woman to serve as a federal judge in that district

Education

Additional information

• Also accepting applications for her 2027–2028 law clerks
• Solicitor general, State of Mississippi, 2020
• President Trump nominated Johnson on May 4, 2020 to replace Judge Keith Starrett, who had assumed senior status in 2019.
• Private practice, Ridgeland, Mississippi, 2011-2014
• Born Kristi Erin Haskins in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1980, Johnson earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Mississippi in 2003 and her J.D., summa cum laude, from Mississippi College School of Law in 2008, where she edited the Mississippi College Law Review
• Date of birth: 1980
• As a U.S. District Judge, Johnson presides over federal criminal and civil cases in the Southern District of Mississippi.
• Birth place: Oxford