Kristina M. Johnson

Kristina M. Johnson is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group of Jones Walker LLP in Jackson, Miss. She provides counsel in complex commercial bankruptcy cases and receivership matters, and many of her cases involve parallel criminal proceedings. Ms. Johnson sits on ABI’s Board of Directors, and she is a Fellow in both the American College of Bankruptcy and the Litigation Counsel of America. She is listed in Chambers USA for Corporate/Commercial Bankruptcy, and she is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification (for which she also serves on its Board of Directors and Standards Committee). Ms. Johnson is the vice chair for the Gulf Coast IWIRC Network and past president of the Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference. She is also the Mississippi Attorney Co-Chair for the 2023 national diversity event sponsored by the Judicial Conference Committees on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System and the Magistrate Judges System, “Roadways to the Bench: Who, Me? A Bankruptcy or Magistrate Judge?,” held in April 2023 Ms. Johnson received her B.B.A. summa cum laude in 1989 from the University of Mississippi, where she was a Taylor Medalist, and her J.D. magna cum laude in 1992 from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where she served as associate editor of the Mississippi Law Journal, and received the Robert J. Farley Graduation Award and West Publishing Company Award.