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Johnson's grandfather, Dr. Reverend [[Allen Johnson (activist)|Allen Johnson]], was a leader in the [[Civil Rights Movement]] in [[Mississippi]].<ref name=those>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Abbe|last2=Freedman|first2=Monroe|title=How Can You Represent Those People|publisher=palgrave|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref> In 1967, the Johnson family home in [[Laurel, Mississippi]] was bombed by members of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. [[Allen Johnson (activist)|Allen Johnson]] and his family were targeted because he was an activist in the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dittmer|first1=John|title=Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi|date=1994|publisher=University of Illinois Press|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>
Vida Johnson was raised in [[San Diego, California]].<ref name=those/> Johnson went to college at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]].<ref name=profile>{{cite web|title=Vida Johnson Profile|url=http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/johnson-vida.cfm#|website=georgetown.edu|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref> Johnson earned her degree in American History. Johnson went on to law school at [[New York University School of Law]].<ref name="profile
==Legal
===Public Defender Service===
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Johnson writes and teaches in the area of criminal law. In ''A Plea for Funds: Using Padilla, Lafler, and Frye to Increase Public Defender Resources,'' writes about Supreme Court case law around ineffective assistance of counsel and on how this line of cases impacts public defender offices.<ref name=ACLR>{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Vida|title=A Plea for Funds: Using Padilla, Lafler, and Frye to Increase Public Defender Resources|url=http://www.americancriminallawreview.com/files/2514/0944/5359/A_Plea_for_Funds.pdf|website=americancriminallawreview.com|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Berman|first1=Douglas|title=A Plea for Funds: Using Padilla, Lafler, and Frye to Increase Public Defender Resources|url=http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2014/09/a-plea-for-funds-using-padilla-lafler-and-frye-to-increase-public-defender-resources.html|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>
Johnson does indigent criminal defense work because she believes there to be criminalization of the black community that replaced the [[Jim Crow]] segregation of her grandfather's time.<ref name=those/> Johnson appeared on [[C-SPAN]] to discuss criminal defense work.<ref>{{cite web|title=How Can You Represent Those People?|url=http://www.c-span.org/person/?vidajohnson|website=cspan.org|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>
Johnson supports the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement.<ref>{{cite web|title=An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter|url=http://blackspaceblog.com/2014/12/08/an-open-letter-of-love-to-black-students-blacklivesmatter/|website=http://blackspaceblog.com/|accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>
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* A Plea for Funds: Using Padilla, Lafler, and Frye to Increase Public Defender Resources, 51 [[American Criminal Law Review]] 403 (2014).<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2492215</ref>
* When the Government Holds the Purse Strings but Not the Purse: Brady, Giglio, and Crime Victim Compensation Funds, 38 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 491 (2014).<ref>https://socialchangenyutest.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/johnson_6-6-15_final_corrected_an.pdf</ref>
* Effective Assistance of Counsel and Guilty
* A Word of Caution: Consequences of Confession, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 213 (2012).<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2503765</ref>
* A Primer on Crossing an Informant, 35
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
==External
* [https://twitter.com/vidabjohnson Vida Johnson] on [[Twitter]]
* {{C-SPAN|Vida Johnson}}
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