Keisha A. Garner is the Owner and Managing Member of Garner Law PLLC, where she advises individuals and families on estate planning, probate, and family law matters. Through education and a client-centered approach, she helps clients navigate complex legal challenges, protect their legacies, and build foundations for generational wealth.
Ms. Garner is a recognized leader in the legal profession with extensive service across local, state, and national bar organizations. She is also a graduate of Class IV of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the prestigious American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
Within the Maryland State Bar Association, she serves on the Estate and Trust Law Section Council (2023–present), chairs the Section’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (2024–present, member 2022-present), and serves on the Nominating Committee (2026–present). At the Association level, she served on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (2016-2017). She is also a Board Member of the Maryland Bar Foundation (2025–present), where she serves on the Finance Committee. Ms. Garner was selected as a Maryland Bar Foundation Fellow (Class of 2020–2021) and a Leadership Academy Fellow (Class of 2015–2016).
Ms. Garner is President of the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association (2026–present). Her leadership within the organization also includes President-Elect and Chair of the Annual Scholarship Banquet (2025-2026), Chair of the Christmas in April Committee (2024-present), Treasurer (2018-2019), and service on the Judicial Nominating Committee (2021-present), Annual Scholarship Banquet Committee (2014-present), and the Women’s Committee (2016-present). Her work with the Women’s Committee includes the 2L Mentoring Sip & Chat, Book Scholarship, Community Service, and Scholarship Tea subcommittees.
She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, where she served on the Practice Management Service Committee (2015-2018). Her national service includes leadership within the National Bar Association (NBA), where she served as Region IV Council Representative (2024-2025) and Director of Professional Development for the Young Lawyers Division (2019-2020). She is also an active member of the NBA’s Real Property, Trusts and Estates Section (2024-present).
In addition to serving on numerous committees that further the missions of the 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 has volunteered 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, First Baptist Church of Glen Arden’s Ask a Lawyer, and District 6 Legal Clinic.
Ms. Garner is admitted to practice before the Maryland State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the United States Supreme Court. She is also a member of the Prince George’s County Bar Association and Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
Her honors include the National Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Chairman’s Award for Excellence, recognition among the National Black Lawyers Top 100, and selection as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2014–2018) and Super Lawyer (2020–2025).
Ms. Garner earned her J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Journal of Business and Technology Law and received the Dean’s Award, and her B.A. from Bucknell University.
