Zandra L. Johnson

Ms. Johnson concentrates her practice in commercial defense litigation. Her experience and practice includes products liability, professional negligence, church litigation, real estate litigation and premises liability.  Product liability cases have included representation of manufacturers of cranes, hydraulic jacks, automotive parts, plant machinery and consumer products.  Since joining the Firm in 2003, she has also gained experience in traditional business litigation and appellate litigation.  Ms. Johnson practices in both state and federal court.

Ms. Johnson’s many activities during law school include serving on the Executive Board of the Moot Court Honor Society, as a section representative in the Student Bar Association and as Day Vice-President of the Black Law Students Association.

While in New York, Ms. Johnson participated in the Courtroom Advocate’s Project representing homeless persons appeal denials of government housing as well as in the Domestic Violence Project assisting victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary restraining orders.

Bar Admissions & Memberships

• South Carolina
• U.S. District Court for District of South Carolina, 2003
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2008

Education

• South Carolina State University, B.A., Orangeburg, S.C., Political Science, summa cum laude, 1997
• St. John’s University School of Law, Jamaica, New York, J.D., 2003

Civic & Charitable Activities

• Ms. Johnson speaks regularly at area high schools, rotary club and organizational meetings and career fairs in addition to delivering inspirational speeches to the area youth.
• Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands Council Board of Directors (Member)
  
• Greenville Tech Foundation Board of Directors (Member)
• Pendleton Place Children’s Shelter Board of Directors (Member)
• United Way Young Philanthropists Council (Member)
• Junior League of Greenville (Member)
• Eta Sigma Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (Member)

Professional Activities

• South Carolina Bar Association (Member, 2003-present; Young Lawyers Division Cinderella Project Committee Chair,2007)
• Greenville County Bar Association (Member, 2003-present; Law Week Committee Member 2006 – present)
• South Carolina Black Lawyers Association (Member, 2003-present)
• South Carolina Women Lawyers Association (Board Member 2004 – present)
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association (Member, 2004- present)
• American Bar Association (Member, 2003-present)
• National Bar Association (Member, 2003-present)
• Federal Bar Association (Board Member of South Carolina Chapter, 2006-present)
• Donald James Sampson Bar Association (Founding Member, 2007-present)

Accolades

• Selected as 1 of 25 Dream Achievers…ordinary women who achieve the extraordinary, by the YWCA of Greenville, 2007
• Honored by Latchkey Kids, Inc. and Destiny Magazine as a Woman of Achievement in 2006
• Member of 2006 Class of Connections: Women Leaders of the Upstate
• Recognized as a Phenomenal Woman by Charleston, South Carolina's Greater Middleton Chapel AME Church in 2006
• Named to Greenville Magazine’s Best and Brightest Under 35 in 2006
• Featured in 2007 United Way Campaign Video
• Recognized for contributions to community by Cedar Grove Baptist Church in 2007