Charisma Nguepdo

Charisma joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Alfred H. Bennett of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Before clerking, Charisma graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Houston Law Center. During law school, Charisma served as Editor-in-Chief of the Houston Law Review, earning the distinction of being the first African-American student in the Houston Law Review’s history to be elected Editor-in-Chief. She also served as the president of the Black Law Students Association, a research assistant, a teaching assistant, and a fellow for the University of Houston Law Center’s Legal Writing Center. In 2021, she was one of twelve recipients of the inaugural Susman Godfrey Prize.

Before law school, Charisma was a member of the 2015 Teach for America Corps, through which she taught third grade for two years in Cleveland, Ohio. She then relocated to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she taught third grade and worked as a curriculum specialist in high-need charter schools for two additional years. Charisma holds a master’s degree in education from Johns Hopkins University and earned bachelor’s degrees in African-American studies and criminology, with honors and high distinction, from the Pennsylvania State University.

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