Alice Marie Johnson

Alice Marie Johnson
Johnson in 2019
White House Pardon Czar
Incumbent
Assumed office February 20, 2025
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Position Established
Personal details
Born	(1955-05-30) May 30, 1955 (age 70) Mississippi, U.S.
Criminal status	Pardoned (August 28, 2020) Sentence commuted (June 6, 2018)
Convictions	Conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute Attempted possession of cocaine with intent to distribute Attempted possession of cocaine (3 counts) Conspiracy to commit money laundering Money laundering Structuring monetary transactions[1] (Pardoned from all convictions)
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (1996) Commuted to 21 years in prison (2018; pardoned in 2020)

Alice Marie Johnson (born May 30, 1955)^[2] is an American criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner. She was convicted in 1996 for her involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization and sentenced to life imprisonment. In June 2018, after serving 21 years in prison, she was released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville, after President Donald Trump granted her clemency, thereby commuting her sentence, effective immediately.^[3][4] On February 20, 2025, Trump named her as his administration's "pardon czar".^[5]