Kimberly Kendall Corral

Class of 2012

  • Founder, Law Firm of Kimberly Kendall Corral

Kim is the founder of the Law Firm of Kimberly Kendall Corral. She represents clients in complex criminal matters, whether it’s a capital homicide trial or a wrongful conviction. From indictment and pretrial motions to trial, appeals, and post-conviction, Kim handles all levels of criminal justice advocacy. 

Kim has an exceptional track record of success protecting clients’ constitutional rights to help them avoid conviction and even free them from incarceration. As a freedom fighter, Kim helped Ru-El Sailor in March 2018 to get his 2013 murder conviction overturned after he was imprisoned for 15 years for a crime he didn’t commit. She helped secure a dismissal of murder charges against Charles Jackson in August 2019 after he spent 27 years in prison for a homicide he didn’t commit. In January 2020, Kim submitted a petition of clemency on behalf of Michigan resident Michael Alonzo Thompson, who has spent more than 25 years of his 60-year sentence for selling marijuana to an undercover informant. Celebrities and social justice advocates like Kim Kardashian, Snoop Dogg, Shaun King and Chelsea Handler and have joined the fight to free Michael Thompson. In June 2020, Kim won a new trial for a client sentenced to thirty years of incarceration, following a conviction obtained by way of unconstitutional trial procedure. Kim has been qualified by the Supreme Court as an attorney capable of handling Death Penalty cases in the State of Ohio.