Lydia D. Johnson
Professor of Law - Director of Clinical Legal Studies Program
Phone: (713) 313-7004
Email: lydia.johnson@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Joined the faculty in 2011.
Education:
B.A., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1984
J.D., South Texas College of Law, Houston, TX 1987
Courses Taught
Criminal Trial Practice
Criminal Externship
Criminal Law Clinic
Judicial Externship
Biographical Information
- Professor, and Director of Clinical Legal Studies Program, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2024-current)
- Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2015-Present)
- Assistant Professor, Clinical Legal Studies Program, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2011-2015)
- Director, Criminal Law Clinic, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2006-2012)
- Clinical Instructor, Criminal Law Clinic, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2000-2011)
- Associate Municipal Court Judge, City of Houston, Houston, TX (1997-Present)
- Assistant District Attorney, Harris County District Attorney's Office, Houston, TX (1988-1996)
Select Publications
- Juvenile Sex Offenders: Should They Go to School with Your Children or Should We Create a Pedophile Academy Fall 2018 The University of Toledo Law Review
- What Does Justice Have to Do with Interpreters in the Jury Room? Summer 2016
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - . “The Politics of the Bail System... What’s the Price of Freedom” Fall 2015 St. Mary’s Law Journal
- Lydia D. Johnson, “The Illusion of a Second Chance: Expunctions versus the Law School and State Bar Application Process,” 9 Florida A&M University Law Review 1 (2013).
- Lydia D. Johnson, “Guilty or Innocent? Just Take a Look at My Brain – Analyzing the Nexus Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility”, 37 Southern University Law Review 25 (2009).
- Lydia D. Johnson, “What Effect Will Yarborough v. Alvarado Have On Texas Law Enforcement Interrogation of Suspect Minors”, 30 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 409 (2005).
Presentations
- MoModerator, Criminal Justice From Within: The Role of the Prosecutor (Fall 2018)
- Invited Speaker, TMSL Orientation- Meditation and Mindfulness- How to Cope with Stress (Fall 2018
- Panelist, National Association of Law Students Association Professionals: Mindfulness in the Law for Stressed Out Law Students (Spring 2018)
- Plenary Speaker, TRIO Upward Bound Leadership Conference: The What, Why and How of Building a Mindful Culture: Can We Talk? (Spring 2018)
- Invited Speaker - Special Recognition, The Jerome M. KaramMoot Court Naming Ceremony (Spring 2017)
Invited Speaker, Press Conference with Harris County District Attorney DA Kim Ogg YouTube October (Fall 2017) - Keynote Speaker, TRIO Upward Bound Leadership Conference “Let’s Have a Conversation about Jury Selection”(Spring 2015)
- Presentation, Galveston College Lecture Series Guilty or Innocent Just Take a Look at My Brain, Analyzing the Nexus between Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility ( Spring 2016)
Affiliations
- Texas A&M Alumni
- Legal Aid Clinic, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX
- National Bar Association
- Houston Bar Association
Video from Title IX Criminal Defense Clinic
