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Jeh Johnson
Official portrait, 2014
Official portrait, 2014
4thUnited States Secretary of Homeland Security
In office
December 23, 2013 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
DeputyAlejandro Mayorkas
Preceded byJanet Napolitano
Succeeded byJohn F. Kelly
General Counsel of the Department of Defense
In office
February 10, 2009 – December 31, 2012
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byWilliam J. Haynes II
Succeeded byStephen W. Preston
General Counsel of the Air Force
In office
October 15, 1998 – January 20, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded bySheila C. Cheston
Succeeded byMary L. Walker
Personal details
Born
Jeh Charles Johnson

(1957-09-11)September 11, 1957(age 67)
New York City,New York,U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Susan DiMarco
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(m.1994)​
EducationMorehouse College(BA)
Columbia University(JD)

Jeh Charles Johnson(/ˈdʒeɪ/"Jay"; born September 11, 1957) is an American lawyer and former government official. He wasUnited States Secretary of Homeland Securityfrom 2013 to 2017.

From 2009 to 2012, Johnson was thegeneral counsel of the Department of Defenseduring the first years of theObama administration.Before joining the Obama administration, he was a federal prosecutor, the general counsel of theDepartment of the Air Force,and an attorney in private practice.

Johnson is currently a partner at the law firmPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison,a member of the boards of directors ofLockheed Martin,U.S. Steel,andMetLife,and a trustee ofColumbia University.

Early life and education

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Johnson was born on September 11, 1957, in New York City, the son of Norma (Edelin), who worked forPlanned Parenthood,and Jeh Vincent Johnson, anarchitectand lecturer atVassar College.[1][2][3]His parents met as a result of the elder Johnson's friendship with Norma's brother, Milton. His father and his Uncle Milton were the only black students in their respective classes atColumbia University's School of Architecture.[4]He is also the nephew ofKenneth C. Edelin,a physician who was a defendant in a landmark case involving abortion rights.[5]Johnson is the grandson ofsociologistandFisk UniversityPresidentCharles S. Johnson.Johnson's first name is taken from aLiberianchief, who reportedly saved his grandfather's life while he was on aLeague of Nationsmission to Liberia in 1930.[6]

Raised inWappingers Falls, New York,[7]he graduated fromRoy C. Ketcham High Schoolin 1975.[8]He described himself as "a big underachiever", earning grades of C and D in school until he went on to college, citing the fact that he didn't "have a lot of African-American role models" in what was a mostly white community.[9]It was during his sophomore year in college that a vision of becoming an attorney led him to work to increase his "GPA above a dismal 1.8".[10]

Johnson is a graduate ofMorehouse College(B.A.) andColumbia Law School(J.D.). He is the recipient of thirteen honorary degrees.

Early career

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Private practice and federal prosecutor

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Johnson began as an associate atPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisonin November 1984, then left in 1989 to serve as an assistantUnited States Attorneyin the public corruption section at the Southern District of New York. There, he prosecuted politicians, police, and immigration agents.[11][12]

Johnson returned to Paul, Weiss in 1992 and was elected partner (the firstAfrican-Americanpartner at the firm) in 1994.[12]

Air Force General Counsel

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In 1998, Johnson was appointed General Counsel of theAir Forceby PresidentBill Clintonand confirmed by theU.S. Senate.[13]As General Counsel, Johnson was the senior legal official in the Air Force, and the Governor ofWake Island,which is administerd by the Air Force.[14]His tenure coincided withOperation Allied Forcein 1999. He was awarded theDecoration for Exceptional Civilian Servicefor his efforts.[13]

Private practice

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After his service in the Clinton administration, Johnson returned to Paul, Weiss in 2001, where he tried large commercial cases.[13]

Johnson was a member of the Executive Committee of theNew York City Bar Association.From 2001 to 2004, he served as chairman of the City Bar's Judiciary Committee, which rates and approves all federal, state and localjudgesin New York City. In 2007, Johnson was shortlisted by theNew York StateCommission on Judicial Nomination to beChief Judgeof New York[15]though the incumbent,Judith Kaye,was ultimately reappointed by former GovernorEliot Spitzer.

Involvement with the Democratic Party

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Johnson was active inDemocratic Partypolitics, as a fundraiser and adviser to presidential campaigns. Johnson served as special counsel toJohn Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign,[16]and was an early supporter ofBarack Obama's presidential campaign, active as a foreign policy adviser and as a member of his national finance committee.[17][18]

Obama administration

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General Counsel of the Department of Defense

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Johnson swears inLeon Panettaas Secretary of Defense.

On January 8, 2009, then President-elect Barack Obama announced Johnson's nomination as Department of Defense General Counsel.[19]On February 9, 2009, he was confirmed by the Senate by avoice vote.[20]

In 2009, Johnson was heavily involved in the reform of military commissions, and testified before Congress numerous times in support of theMilitary Commissions Act of 2009.[21]In February 2010, the Secretary of Defense appointed Johnson to co-chair a working group, along with Army GeneralCarter Ham,to study the potential impact of a repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"policy. In November 2010, following an extensive study, Johnson and General Ham reported that the risk to overall military effectiveness of a repeal would be low.[22]

As general counsel, Johnson gave a number of speeches on national security. In a speech delivered atThe Heritage Foundationin October 2011, Johnson warned against "over-militarizing" the U.S. government's approach to counterterrorism: "There is risk in permitting and expecting the U.S. military to extend its powerful reach into areas traditionally reserved for civilian law enforcement in this country."[23]At a speech atYale Law Schoolin February 2012, Johnson defended "targeted killings".[24]

At theOxford Unionin November 2012, shortly before his resignation, Johnson delivered an address titled "The conflict against al Qaeda and its affiliates: how will it end?" In that speech, he predicted a "tipping point" at which the U.S. government's efforts against al Qaeda should no longer be considered an armed conflict, but a more traditional law enforcement effort against individual terrorists. Johnson stated:

"War" must be regarded as a finite, extraordinary and unnatural state of affairs. War permits one man—if he is a "privileged belligerent," consistent with the laws of war—to kill another. War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children. In its 12th year, we must not accept the current conflict, and all that it entails, as the "new normal." Peace must be regarded as the norm toward which the human race continually strives.

The Oxford Union speech received widespread press attention,[25][26][27][28]and editorial acclaim as the first such statement coming from an Obama administration official.[29]

According to published reports, Johnson personally authored the legal opinion that provided the basis for U.S. special operations forces to go into Pakistan tokill Osama bin Laden.[30]

Secretary of Homeland Security

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Johnson visitsPulse nightclubaftershootingwhich left 49 people dead in Orlando

Johnson was nominated by PresidentBarack Obamato be the fourthU.S. Secretary of Homeland Securityin October 2013, and was subsequently confirmed by theUnited States Senateon December 16, 2013 by a 78–16 vote.[31][32]He was sworn in on December 23, 2013.[33]

When Johnson entered office one of his top priorities was to fill all of the high level vacancies. By April 2015 the President had appointed and the Senate confirmed all but one of Johnson's senior leader positions.[34]One of Johnson's first major efforts as Secretary was hisunity of effortinitiative to set the conditions for the Department to operate in a more unified fashion and develop a culture that recognizes and responds adequately to the diverse challenges the Department of Homeland Security faces.[34]

In the spring and summer of 2014 the southern border of theUnited Statesexperienced a large influx of immigrants, many of whom were children, coming from Central America.[35]Secretary Johnson and his Department worked with theDepartment of Health and Human Servicesto coordinate a response to address the immigrants' needs. In June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Servicesasylumofficers were reassigned to conductcredible fearinterviews, while prioritizing the cases of recently apprehended unaccompanied children, adults with children, and other recent border crossers.[35]At the same time, Secretary Johnson asked for the support of Congress to increase border security and prevent more spikes like this from happening again.[35]After the flow of immigrant children to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security established three family residential centers, and they immediately became the focus of much controversy.[36]TheACLUhas compared them toJapanese internment campsand in July 2015 a U.S. District Court Judge in California ordered that the family residential centers comply with a 1997 settlement concerning the detention of children.[36]

Johnson speaking at theIslamic Society of North Americaconvention in Chicago in September 2016

During the summer and fall of 2014, Secretary Johnson oversaw the Department of Homeland Security's response to the ongoingEbola crisisin West Africa.[37]TheEbolaepidemic was the largest in history, and impacted multiple West African countries. In response, theDepartment of Homeland Securitydeveloped policies, procedures and protocols to identify travelers for screening who could have been potentially infected to minimize the risk to the traveling public.[37]This response was chosen by the Department over limiting travel visas to the United States, which Secretary Johnson contended would have been a mistake given the leadership position of the U.S. and likelihood of influencing other countries to take the same action.[38]

Johnson met with law enforcement officials andNational Football Leaguesecurity prior toSuper Bowl 50

After theHouse of Representativesfailed to act onBill S. 744,Secretary Johnson andPresident Obamaissued ten new executive actions on November 20, 2014 to address the11 million undocumented individuals in the United States.[39][third-party source needed]Johnson is said to have worked heavily on drafting theexecutive actions at the behest of the President.[40]

Career after Obama administration

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For theinauguration of Donald Trump,Johnson was chosen as thedesignated survivorand would have become the next president if a disaster or attack had occurred.[41]

After leaving office in January 2017, Johnson rejoined the law firmPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisonin New York City.[42][13]He is also a member of the boards of directors ofLockheed Martin,[43][44]U.S. Steel,[45]theNational September 11 Memorial & Museum,[46]WBGO,[47]and a trustee ofColumbia University.He is also now a frequent commentator on NBC'sMeet the Press,CBS,MSNBC, CNN, NewsNation, Bloomberg Television, and other networks, and the author of numerous op-eds. Johnson also hosts a radio show on FM public radio station WBGO, based in Newark, New Jersey, All Things Soul, that features classic R&B music and commentary, along with interviews.[48]

In June 2018, he was an outspoken critic of the Trump administration's family separation practice at the border.[49]Several days later, he wrote to criticize calls to abolish ICE.[50]Johnson has called for a more civil dialogue from political leaders on both sides of the aisle.[51]In December 2021, he co-authored with Leon Panetta, Jane Herman and Bill Bratton, a statement arguing against parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.[52]

In December 2018, Secretary Johnson was the recipient of the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Award, presented at the Reagan Presidential Library, for “contributing greatly to the defense of our nation” and “guiding us through turbulent times with courage and wisdom.” He has received numerous other awards and acknowledgments, including three Department of Defense medals for distinguished public service.[53]In December 2021, Johnson was a recipient ofThe American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievement Award.[54]In May 2022, Johnson was the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.[55]

Johnson also delivered the convocation address atLiberty Universityon September 11, 2020, in which he discussed the importance of morality in political leadership.[56][57]

In April 2020, GovernorPhil Murphyappointed Johnson to represent New Jersey in the seven-state regional working group to develop a plan for reopening theeconomy following the COVID-19 crisis.[58]

In June 2020, Chief Judge of New York StateJanet DiFiore,appointed Johnson as Special Advisor on Equal Justice in the courts.[59]After a four-month review, Johnson issued a 100-page public report that contained a number of recommendations. In the report Johnson noted:

“[I]n one form or another, multiple interviewees from all perspectives still complain about an under-resourced, over-burdened New York State court system, the dehumanizing effect it has on litigants, and the disparate impact of all this on people of color. Housing, Family, Civil and Criminal courts of New York City, in particular, continue to be faced with extremely high volumes of cases, fewer resources to hear those cases and aging facilities. Over and over, we heard about the ‘dehumanizing’ and ‘demeaning cattle-call culture’ in these high-volume courts. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of civil and criminal litigants in the Housing, Family, Civil and Criminal courts in New York City are people of color. The sad picture that emerges is, in effect, a second-class system of justice for people of color in New York state.”[60]

In August 2023, the president of the American Bar Association asked Johnson and former federal appellate judge J. Michael Luttig to lead a national task force to recommend ways to restore public trust in the American democracy.[61]In June 2023, the president of the New York State Bar Association asked Johnson to co-chair a task force to study the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Harvard and UNC cases on affirmative action.[62]In 2020, Johnson was floated as a possible candidate forUnited States Secretary of Defense,United States Attorney GeneralandDirector of National Intelligencein theBiden administration.[63]In February 2023, Johnson and his family history were profiled onPBS'sFinding your Roots.[64]In January 2024, Johnson was the recipient of the Gold Medal, the New York State Bar Association’s “highest honor."[65]

Personal life

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On March 18, 1994, Johnson married Susan Maureen DiMarco, adentist,atCorpus Christi Church of New York City.[2]At the request of the Secretary of the Navy, Dr. DiMarco was the sponsor at the christening of the USS New Jersey, a Virginia-class submarine.[66]The pair grew up across the street from each other inWappingers Falls, New York.[67]

He has been a resident ofMontclair, New Jersey.[68]

Johnson was present in New York City during theSeptember 11 attacks,which occurred on his 44th birthday.[69][70][71]He has frequently referred to the attacks in his speeches.[72][73]

See also

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References

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