The District Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana announce the selection of Kristen D. Amond as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the district, pending successful completion of a background investigation. Kristen D. Amond has handled complex commercial and civil rights litigation in federal and Louisiana state courts and served as outside general counsel to small businesses and nonprofit organizations. A trained mediator, she has served on the Middle District of Louisiana’s Hurricane Ida mediation panel, and she has accepted appointments through the civil pro bono panels of both the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana. Amond began her career teaching in New Orleans elementary charter schools, and she has continued to teach ever since. She taught First Amendment and the Media as an adjunct professor at Tulane University. Since 2022, she has co-taught “Making Your Case” with Judge Susie Morgan during LSU Law’s Apprenticeship Week. Her scholarship has appeared in the Louisiana Law Review and the Loyola Law Review. She has been active in the profession and the community, having chaired the Louisiana State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and served on the LSBA Board of Governors. She has also served on the Judicial Council of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the LSU Law Alumni Board of Trustees, the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, and both the Board of Directors and the Younger Lawyers Division board of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Amond earned her J.D./D.C.L., magna cum laude, from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Louisiana Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her B.S. in Management, cum laude, from Tulane University. During law school, she served as a judicial extern to Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. After graduating, she clerked for Judge Susie Morgan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In 2022, the American Bar Association named her one of its “On the Rise” Top 40 Young Lawyers in America.