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Colorado Bar Association has a new President

During his presidency, his first goal is to help legal professionals and members hit by the economic downturn. Secondly, as a past president of the El Paso County Bar Association, Johnson wants to form stronger alliances between the CBA and the state’s 27 local bar associations. Third, he wants to add value to bar association membership and make the bar association even more relevant to members in a changing world.

Johnson received his bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame, and his law degree
from St. Louis University School of Law. After a successful entry into the practice of
criminal law in the late-1970s where he grew up in St. Louis, Johnson moved to Colorado
Springs and has been successfully practicing family law ever since. He served as a
magistrate in El Paso County in the mid-1990s when he was appointed to fill in for a
magistrate on foreign sabbatical.

He ranks among a handful of lawyers in Colorado as an esteemed fellow of the American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He served on his national alumni board for the
University of Notre Dame and also served on the Board of Trustees at Notre Dame. He
also chaired the CBA’s Family Law Section Executive Council. He volunteered as a
coach of the CBA’s Mock Trial program at William Palmer High School in Colorado
Springs; the team took first place in state this year.

Johnson has one daughter, Marianne, 18, who will be attending American University in
Washington D.C. this fall.

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