Keva Landrum-Johnson
Keva Landrum-Johnson assumed the position of Interim District Attorney for Orleans Parish on November 1, 2007, becoming the state’s first female district attorney. For the last nine years, she has worked for the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office in various capacities, serving as an Assistant District Attorney, a homicide and sex crimes screener, Chief of Juvenile, Chief of Screening and Interim First Assistant District Attorney. She has also taught criminal law at Southern University at New Orleans.
During the early stages of her career and educational matriculation, Ms. Landrum-Johnson served as a law clerk for Carter and Cates Law Firm in New Orleans. She also volunteered with the Orleans Parish Indigent Defender program and worked as a legal intern for a firm in St. Louis, Missouri. She served as appellate chair for Tulane Law School’s Moot Court and has won moot court championships with the Jessup International Law Appellate Team (Southern Region) and the Federal Bar Association’s Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Ms. Landrum-Johnson is a New Orleans native. She attended Ursuline Academy for high school and later received a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a Juris Doctorate Degree from Tulane Law School in New Orleans.
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