Joanne Geha Swanson is a member of Kerr, Russell and Weber, PLC.  Mrs. Swanson specializes in the areas of civil litigation and appeals. Her litigation practice primarily involves complex commercial disputes, antitrust, class actions, legal malpractice and other related matters.  Mrs. Swanson also devotes a significant percentage of her professional time to state and federal appellate practice involving issues across the spectrum of subject areas, including medical and legal malpractice, insurance coverage, constitutional challenges, questions of statutory interpretation and application, business torts, commercial disputes, and civil procedural questions.

Mrs. Swanson has been named as a Michigan Super Lawyer, a Corporate Counsel Edition Super Lawyer, and a DBusiness Top Lawyer.  She is also listed in Best Lawyers in America (2010). Mrs. Swanson is a past chairperson of the Antitrust, Franchise, and Trade Regulation Section of the State Bar of Michigan, and served in various capacities on the Section’s council for five years. She is also a member of the Negligence Section and Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar. Mrs. Swanson has published articles for the Michigan Business Law Journal, the Michigan Defense Quarterly, Laches, and Michigan Medicine.  More recently, Mrs. Swanson served on the Editorial Board of A Practitioner’s Guide to Class Actions, published by the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association,and authored the Michigan chapter. Mrs. Swanson is a recipient of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Distinguished Brief Award, which recognizes the most scholarly briefs filed before the Michigan Supreme Court. 

Mrs. Swanson graduated cum laude from Wayne State University Law School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Michigan State University.