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Trump appoints Alice Marie Johnson ‘pardon czar’ during Black History Month event at White House

by February 21, 2025
February 21, 2025

President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a woman he pardoned during his first term, as ‘pardon czar.’

The announcement came during a Black History Month event at the White House.

The ‘pardon czar’ will be responsible for making recommendations about who should be granted clemency.

The New York Times first reported Trump was thinking about naming Johnson ‘pardon czar.’

Johnson was convicted of nonviolent drug trafficking in Memphis, Tennessee, and after serving 21 years, her life sentence was commuted by Trump.

Reality television star Kim Kardashian West met with Trump at the White House a week prior to her release to discuss the great-grandmother’s case.

She was arrested in 1993 and convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering in 1996.

A series of unfortunate events, including the death of her son, financial troubles and a divorce, led her to involvement with cocaine dealers.

‘Back in the 1990s, I was a single mother about to lose my house,’ Johnson wrote in a Fox News Digital opinion article. ‘In a desperate moment, I made a life-altering bad decision to become a low-level player in a drug operation. When law enforcement authorities broke up the drug operation, I was prosecuted and sentenced to life in prison.’

While Johnson claims she never ‘touched, saw or sold a single drug,’ she admitted to assisting in communications. 

While in prison, she worked in the prison hospice, volunteered in the prison church, became an ordained minister, and started writing and directing plays.

After being pardoned, she remained under federal supervision for five years.

She became a champion for overburdened case officers and has fought against unnecessary supervision post-incarceration.

Her work on criminal justice reform led her to launch ‘Taking Action For Good,’ which advocated for clemency and pardons for over 100 people.

She also published a book and partnered with the philanthropic organization, Stand Together.

Fox News Digital’s Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Emma Colton and Alice Marie Johnson contributed to this report.

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