Kelly H. Johnson is an attorney, writer, and the mother/stepmother of five sons and one daughter.  She holds a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and a law degree from the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law.  She served as law clerk to the Honorable Harry L. Carrico, then Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, prior to entering private practice with the law firm, Williams, Mullen, Clark and Dobbins.  She remained there, in the firm’s litigation department, until becoming a full-time mother.

An occasional lead singer in a local rock band, Ms. Johnson has written for both local and national parenting magazines including Richmond Woman on-line, Memphis Parent Magazine, Charlotte Parent, V Magazine for Women, Fifty Plus, and Family Fun.  She is a frequent contributor to the widely-distributed Richmond Parents Monthly, and her work appears in the compilations, The Imperfect Mom – Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World (Doubleday), It’s a Girl –- Women Writers on Raising Daughters  (Seal Press), and in the forthcoming Love Wins (SmileyBooks). 

Ms. Johnson lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Fred, and their children who outnumber them three to one.