Kim Johnson
Justice Fellow
- johnson@loevy.com
Biography
Kim Johnson joined Loevy + Loevy as a Justice Fellow in 2026. Prior to joining Loevy & Loevy, Kim served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert W. Gettleman on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for the Honorable Milan D. Smith, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also worked as an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C.
Kim graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, with honors, in 2022. During law school, Kim served as a student attorney with the Law School’s Exoneration Project Clinic. She externed for Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim in the Northern District of Illinois, worked as a summer associate at Sidley Austin LLP, and clerked at the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy. Kim also served as a Comments Editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum (the Law School’s topical legal journal).
Before becoming a lawyer, Kim worked as a research assistant in a neurobehavioral research lab in Omaha, Nebraska. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychological and brain sciences from Washington University in St. Louis, where she ran varsity cross country and track and field.
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia, 2025
- Illinois, 2022
Education + Honors
The University of Chicago Law School, 2022
- J.D., with academic and pro bono honors
- Certificate in the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy, George Bugbee Advocacy Award
Washington University in St. Louis, 2017
- B.A. in Psychological and Brain Sciences and minor in Biology, magna cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
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