Christiana Johnson joins Campbell Law as inaugural director of career success

RALEIGH- Christiana Johnson will join Campbell Law School as the Career Center's inaugural Director of Student Engagement and Career Success on Oct. 1, 2025, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.

Johnson comes to Campbell Law from Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC), where she most recently was a Managing Attorney in Boone since March 2024.

In her new role, Johnson willprovide comprehensive career and professional development services for students and alumni of the law school, counseling students, assisting with the creation and implementation of career resources and events and leading programs and initiatives to empower students for professional success, said Assistant Dean of Career and Professional Development Mallory Underwood.

"We are excited to welcome Christiana to Campbell Law," she said. "Her experiences in public service settings in Iowa and across North Carolina, along with her enthusiasm and dedication to mentorship, will be enormously valuable to our students as they develop career readiness skills and navigate the job search process. We look forward to having her join our team!"

Johnson's position will provide individual counseling/coaching services to law students and recent graduates, assist with career-related resources and materials to prepare students to engage with the modern legal market, support implementation of career-related programming at events, serve as the primary point of contact for public service programming and work with the assistant dean to create and administer special career and professional development projects and initiatives.

"I am thrilled to join the team at Campbell Law as we encourage and equip future lawyers," Johnson said. "Law school is often overwhelming and finding a job post-law school is intimidating. I'm excited to come alongside law students and help them navigate their next steps."

Johnson earned her J.D. from Liberty University School of Law, where she graduated first in her class and was the Editor in Chief of Liberty's Law Review. During law school, Johnson interned with the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Western District of Virginia and Carver County District Court in Minnesota.

Following graduation from law school, she clerked for The Honorable Thomas D. Waterman of the Iowa Supreme Court. She joined LANC's Wilson Office starting in 2021 as a Domestic Violence Staff Attorney before moving west to the mountains.

Johnson graduated summa cum laude from Liberty University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English in 2017.

ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW SCHOOL

Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation's top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation's best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 5,000 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2026, Campbell Law is celebrating 50 years of graduating legal leaders and 17 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina's Capital City.

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