diff --git a/kafka/coordinator/assignors/sticky/StickyAssignorUserData.json b/kafka/coordinator/assignors/sticky/StickyAssignorUserData.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9635590c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kafka/coordinator/assignors/sticky/StickyAssignorUserData.json
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+// contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+// this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+// The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+// (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+// the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+{
+  "type": "data",
+  "name": "StickyAssignorUserData",
+  // StickyAssignor currently always encodes with version 1.
+  // To decode, versions are attempted in reverse order until one succeeds.
+  // If no decoding is possible, the assignor ignores the previous user data.
+
+  // Version 1 added the "generation" field
+  "validVersions": "0-1",
+  "flexibleVersions": "none",
+  "fields": [
+    { "name": "PreviousAssignment", "type": "[]TopicPartition", "versions": "0+", "fields": [
+        { "name": "Topic", "type": "string", "mapKey": true, "versions": "0+", "entityType": "topicName",
+          "about": "The topic name."},
+        { "name": "Partitions", "type": "[]int32", "versions": "0+",
+          "about": "The partition ids."}
+      ]
+    },
+    { "name": "Generation", "type": "int32", "versions": "1+", "default": "-1", "ignorable": true,
+      "about": "The generation id of the previous assignment."}
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/kafka/coordinator/assignors/sticky/user_data.py b/kafka/coordinator/assignors/sticky/user_data.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9a98a32c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kafka/coordinator/assignors/sticky/user_data.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from kafka.protocol.new.api_data import ApiData
+
+
+class StickyAssignorUserData(ApiData, load_json=__package__):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
+        if 'version' not in kw:
+            kw['version'] = 1
+        super().__init__(*args, **kw)
diff --git a/kafka/protocol/new/api_data.py b/kafka/protocol/new/api_data.py
index 7ecbe0a28..404bc7c14 100644
--- a/kafka/protocol/new/api_data.py
+++ b/kafka/protocol/new/api_data.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 class JsonSchemaData(SlotsBuilder):
     def __new__(metacls, name, bases, attrs, **kw):
         if kw.get('init', True):
-            json = load_json(name)
+            json = load_json(name, package=kw.get('load_json'))
             if 'json_patch' in attrs:
                 json = attrs['json_patch'].__func__(metacls, json)
             attrs['_json'] = json
diff --git a/kafka/protocol/new/schemas/load_json.py b/kafka/protocol/new/schemas/load_json.py
index a2ee99eb8..25c9f32be 100644
--- a/kafka/protocol/new/schemas/load_json.py
+++ b/kafka/protocol/new/schemas/load_json.py
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 import importlib.resources
+import inspect
 import json
 import re
 
 
-def load_json(msg_type):
+def load_json(msg_type, package=None):
+    if package is None:
+        package = __package__ + '.resources'
+    elif inspect.ismodule(package):
+        package = package.__package__
     COMMENTS_REGEX = r"(?m)((?:^\s*//.*\n?)+)"
     # Raises FileNotFoundError if not found
-    msg_json = importlib.resources.read_text(__package__ + '.resources', msg_type + '.json')
+    msg_json = importlib.resources.read_text(package, msg_type + '.json')
     data = json.loads(re.sub(COMMENTS_REGEX, '', msg_json))
     comments = re.findall(COMMENTS_REGEX, msg_json)
     if comments: