Lisa G. Johnston
Acting United States Attorney // Southern District of West Virginia
Lisa G. Johnston currently serves as the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. In this role, she is the lead federal law enforcement officer overseeing all criminal prosecutions and civil litigation in which the United States has an interest across the district’s 23 counties.
Johnston previously held the position of Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia from February to October 2021. She began her tenure with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in August 2006 and has been serving as the First Assistant United States Attorney, the office’s second-highest-ranking official, since January 2018.
Johnston’s 37-year career with the U.S. Department of Justice began in 1988 as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, later becoming an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of West Virginia. In 2001, she took a position with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Chief Counsel’s Office, providing legal guidance to ATF personnel in the Louisville Field Division. In 2005, Johnston worked as a legal advisor handling immigration appeals at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Throughout her career, Johnston has prosecuted a wide range of cases, with a particular focus on violent crime, child sexual exploitation, drug trafficking, and firearm offenses.
A native of Moundsville, West Virginia, Johnston earned her Juris Doctor degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1988. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from West Virginia University in 1984.
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