LSBA Board of Governors

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Kristen D. Amond is an attorney in New Orleans (Kristen Amond, LLC), practicing in federal and state courts in Louisiana. She represents businesses of all sizes in all forms of business disputes and is outside general counsel to small businesses and start-ups. She has represented bankruptcy trustees, plan administrators, receivers in complex litigation and investors in securities fraud lawsuits. She also is a trained mediator. She is a member of the civil pro bono panels for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana and volunteers her professional time to represent plaintiffs in civil rights cases.

She served as a clerk to Judge Susie Morgan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In law school, she served as an intern for Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

Amond received her JD degree, magna cum laude, in 2016 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She was editor-in-chief of the Louisiana Law Review, chaired the SBA’s Ethics Board and was the 3L representative of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Before law school, she taught second and third grades in New Orleans charter schools.

She served as the Louisiana State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division chair-elect in 2023-24 and as secretary in 2022-23. She was elected to two terms as the District 1 representative on the Young Lawyers Division Council.

She also serves on the board of the New Orleans Federal Bar Association Younger Lawyers Division and is an alumna of the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute and a Council for a Better Louisiana’s Leadership Louisiana program. 

She was an adjunct professor at Tulane University teaching “The Media and the First Amendment” and teaches a course at LSU Law’s Apprenticeship Week each year with Judge Susie Morgan.

She was named as one of the American Bar Association’s Top 40 Young Lawyers in America in 2022 and has been recognized in the 2021-2024 editions of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch and 2022-2024 editions of Louisiana Super Lawyers: Rising Stars.

Amond looks forward to traveling the world with her wife, Nancia Sterling.