LSBA Board of Governors
House of Delegates Liaison Committee
Ms. Kristen D Amond
2026-2029
3640 Magazine St
New Orleans, LA 70115
Phone: (504) 556-5523
Fax: (504) 556-5523
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 of 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,
magna cum laude, in 2016 from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She was editor-in-chief of the
Louisiana Law Review.
Before law school, she taught second and third grades in New Orleans charter schools. She served as chair of the LSBA Young Lawyers Division in 2024-25. She was elected to two terms as the District 1 representative on the Young Lawyers Division Council. She was elected to serve on the LSBA’s House of Delegates and Nominating Committee.
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 serves on the board of Glassroots and Success Prep at Thurgood Marshall, where she taught before law school.
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 2021-2026 editions of
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch and 2022-2026 editions of
Louisiana Super Lawyers.
Amond looks forward to traveling the world with her wife, Nancia Sterling, and their (brand new!) son, Julien.