Keisha A. Garner is the Owner and Managing Member of Garner Law PLLC. Prior to founding Garner Law PLLC, Ms. Garner was an Associate in the Washington DC office of Whiteford, Taylor, and Preston, and an Associate Counsel at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
With a focus on education and advocacy, Ms. Garner strives to guide individuals through the complexities of family law, estate planning, and probate matters by developing comprehensive strategies, tailored to each client’s unique needs, which will secure legacies for the purpose of creating generational wealth. Ms. Garner is a graduate of Class IV of the Mid Atlantic Fellows Institute of the prestigious American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) as well as an active member of her local legal community. She is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, where she currently serves as Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Estate and Trust Law Section (Chair, 2024 -present; member 2022-2024) and a member of the Estate and Trust Law Section Council (2023-present). Her membership in the Maryland State Bar Association also includes her selection as a Bar Foundation Fellow (Class of 2020-2021, Board Member 2025-present), Leadership Academy Fellow (Class of 2015-2016), and service on the overall Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (2016-2017).
Ms. Garner is a member of the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association where her service includes contributing as President-Elect (2025-present); Chair of the Christmas in April Committee (2024-present), Treasurer (2018-2019), member of the Annual Scholarship Banquet Committee (2014-2017, 2022-present), member of the Nominations and Elections Committee (2024- present), member of the Judicial Nominating Committee (2021-present), member of the Women’s Committee [2L Mentoring, Book Scholarship, Community Service and Scholarship Tea subcommittees] (2016-present), and co-chair of the Public Relations Committee (2015- 2016).
She is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, where she served on the Practice Management Service Committee (2015-2018). She is also a member of the National Bar Association, where she serves as Region IV Council Representative (2024-present), a member of the Membership Committee of the Real Property Trusts and Estates Section (2024- present), and Director of Professional Development, Young Lawyers Division (2019-2020). Additionally, Ms. Garner is a member of Prince George’s County Bar Association, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, and served as treasurer to former Maryland Delegate and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, Erek L. Barron.
In addition to serving on numerous committees that further the missions of the various organizations, Ms. Garner also provides volunteer and pro bono services to organizations that assist low-income residents of Maryland and the District of Columbia, including the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, D.C. Bar Pro Bono Programs, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, and the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland. She also volunteers as a judge for the Maryland State Bar Association High School Mock Trial, and as a volunteer attorney for the D.C. Bar Youth Law Fair and First Baptist Church of Glen Arden’s Ask a Lawyer.
Among her accolades, Ms. Garner has received the Chairman’s Award for Excellence (2020) from the National Bar Association Young Lawyer Division and was named to the National Black Lawyers Top 100 (2015). She has also been selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine from 2014-2018 and as a Super Lawyer from 2020-present.
Ms. Garner is a graduate of Bucknell University and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. As a law student, Ms. Garner served as an editor of the Journal of Business and Technology Law as was awarded the Dean’s Award. She is admitted to practice before the Maryland State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, and the United States Supreme Court Bar.
