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Jeh Johnson

Jeh Charles Johnson (/ˈ/ "Jay"; born September 11, 1957) is an American lawyer and former government official. He was United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017.

Jeh Johnson
Official portrait, 2014
4th United 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 66)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Susan DiMarco
(m. 1994)
EducationMorehouse College (BA)
Columbia University (JD)

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

Johnson is currently a partner at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a member of the boards of directors of Lockheed Martin, U.S. Steel, and MetLife, and a trustee of Columbia University.

Early life and education edit

Johnson was born on September 11, 1957, in New York City, the son of Norma (Edelin), who worked for Planned Parenthood, and Jeh Vincent Johnson, an architect and lecturer at Vassar 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 at Columbia University's School of Architecture.[4] He is also the nephew of Kenneth C. Edelin, a physician who was a defendant in a landmark case involving abortion rights.[5] Johnson is the grandson of sociologist and Fisk University President Charles S. Johnson. Johnson's first name is taken from a Liberian chief, who reportedly saved his grandfather's life while he was on a League of Nations mission to Liberia in 1930.[6]

Raised in Wappingers Falls, New York,[7] he graduated from Roy C. Ketcham High School in 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 of Morehouse College (B.A.) and Columbia Law School (J.D.). He is the recipient of thirteen honorary degrees.

Early career edit

Private practice and federal prosecutor edit

Johnson began as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in November 1984, then left in 1989 to serve as an assistant United States Attorney in 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 first African-American partner at the firm) in 1994.[12]

Air Force General Counsel edit

In 1998, Johnson was appointed General Counsel of the Air Force by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.[13] As General Counsel, Johnson was the senior legal official in the Air Force, and the Governor of Wake Island, which is administerd by the Air Force.[14] His tenure coincided with Operation Allied Force in 1999. He was awarded the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for his efforts.[13]

Private practice edit

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 the New 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 local judges in New York City. In 2007, Johnson was shortlisted by the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination to be Chief Judge of New York[15] though the incumbent, Judith Kaye, was ultimately reappointed by former Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Involvement with the Democratic Party edit

Johnson was active in Democratic Party politics, as a fundraiser and adviser to presidential campaigns. Johnson served as special counsel to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign,[16] and was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, active as a foreign policy adviser and as a member of his national finance committee.[17][18]

Obama administration edit

General Counsel of the Department of Defense edit

 
Johnson swears in Leon Panetta as 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 a voice vote.[20]

In 2009, Johnson was heavily involved in the reform of military commissions, and testified before Congress numerous times in support of the Military Commissions Act of 2009.[21] In February 2010, the Secretary of Defense appointed Johnson to co-chair a working group, along with Army General Carter 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 at The Heritage Foundation in 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 at Yale Law School in February 2012, Johnson defended "targeted killings".[24]

At the Oxford Union in 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 to kill Osama bin Laden.[30]

Secretary of Homeland Security edit

 
Johnson visits Pulse nightclub after shooting which left 49 people dead in Orlando

Johnson was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the fourth U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security in October 2013, and was subsequently confirmed by the United States Senate on 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 his unity of effort initiative 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 the United States experienced a large influx of immigrants, many of whom were children, coming from Central America.[35] Secretary Johnson and his Department worked with the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate a response to address the immigrants' needs. In June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services asylum officers were reassigned to conduct credible fear interviews, 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] The ACLU has compared them to Japanese internment camps and 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 the Islamic Society of North America convention in Chicago in September 2016

During the summer and fall of 2014, Secretary Johnson oversaw the Department of Homeland Security's response to the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.[37] The Ebola epidemic was the largest in history, and impacted multiple West African countries. In response, the Department of Homeland Security developed 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 and National Football League security prior to Super Bowl 50

After the House of Representatives failed to act on Bill S. 744, Secretary Johnson and President Obama issued ten new executive actions on November 20, 2014 to address the 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States.[39][third-party source needed] Johnson is said to have worked heavily on drafting the executive actions at the behest of the President.[40]

Career after Obama administration edit

For the inauguration of Donald Trump, Johnson was chosen as the designated survivor and would have become the next president if a disaster or attack had occurred.[41]

After leaving office in January 2017, Johnson rejoined the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City.[42][13] He is also a member of the boards of directors of Lockheed Martin,[43][44] U.S. Steel,[45] the National September 11 Memorial & Museum,[46] WBGO,[47] and a trustee of Columbia University. He is also now a frequent commentator on NBC's Meet 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 of The 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 at Liberty University on September 11, 2020, in which he discussed the importance of morality in political leadership.[56][57]

In April 2020, Governor Phil Murphy appointed Johnson to represent New Jersey in the seven-state regional working group to develop a plan for reopening the economy following the COVID-19 crisis.[58]

In June 2020, Chief Judge of New York State Janet 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 for United States Secretary of Defense, United States Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration.[63] In February 2023, Johnson and his family history were profiled on PBS's Finding 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 edit

On March 18, 1994, Johnson married Susan Maureen DiMarco, a dentist, at Corpus 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 in Wappingers Falls, New York.[67]

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

Johnson was present in New York City during the September 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 edit

References edit

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Jeh Charles Johnson ˈ dʒ eɪ Jay born September 11 1957 is an American lawyer and former government official He was United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 Jeh JohnsonOfficial portrait 20144th United States Secretary of Homeland SecurityIn office December 23 2013 January 20 2017PresidentBarack ObamaDeputyAlejandro MayorkasPreceded byJanet NapolitanoSucceeded byJohn F KellyGeneral Counsel of the Department of DefenseIn office February 10 2009 December 31 2012PresidentBarack ObamaPreceded byWilliam J Haynes IISucceeded byStephen W PrestonGeneral Counsel of the Air ForceIn office October 15 1998 January 20 2001PresidentBill ClintonPreceded bySheila C ChestonSucceeded byMary L WalkerPersonal detailsBornJeh Charles Johnson 1957 09 11 September 11 1957 age 66 New York City New York U S Political partyDemocraticSpouseSusan DiMarco m 1994 wbr EducationMorehouse College BA Columbia University JD From 2009 to 2012 Johnson was the general counsel of the Department of Defense during the first years of the Obama administration Before joining the Obama administration he was a federal prosecutor the general counsel of the Department of the Air Force and an attorney in private practice Johnson is currently a partner at the law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton amp Garrison a member of the boards of directors of Lockheed Martin U S Steel and MetLife and a trustee of Columbia University Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early career 2 1 Private practice and federal prosecutor 2 2 Air Force General Counsel 2 3 Private practice 2 4 Involvement with the Democratic Party 3 Obama administration 3 1 General Counsel of the Department of Defense 3 2 Secretary of Homeland Security 4 Career after Obama administration 5 Personal life 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and education editJohnson was born on September 11 1957 in New York City the son of Norma Edelin who worked for Planned Parenthood and Jeh Vincent Johnson an architect and lecturer at Vassar 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 at Columbia University s School of Architecture 4 He is also the nephew of Kenneth C Edelin a physician who was a defendant in a landmark case involving abortion rights 5 Johnson is the grandson of sociologist and Fisk University President Charles S Johnson Johnson s first name is taken from a Liberian chief who reportedly saved his grandfather s life while he was on a League of Nations mission to Liberia in 1930 6 Raised in Wappingers Falls New York 7 he graduated from Roy C Ketcham High School in 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 of Morehouse College B A and Columbia Law School J D He is the recipient of thirteen honorary degrees Early career editPrivate practice and federal prosecutor edit Johnson began as an associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton amp Garrison in November 1984 then left in 1989 to serve as an assistant United States Attorney in 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 first African American partner at the firm in 1994 12 Air Force General Counsel edit In 1998 Johnson was appointed General Counsel of the Air Force by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U S Senate 13 As General Counsel Johnson was the senior legal official in the Air Force and the Governor of Wake Island which is administerd by the Air Force 14 His tenure coincided with Operation Allied Force in 1999 He was awarded the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for his efforts 13 Private practice edit 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 the New 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 local judges in New York City In 2007 Johnson was shortlisted by the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination to be Chief Judge of New York 15 though the incumbent Judith Kaye was ultimately reappointed by former Governor Eliot Spitzer Involvement with the Democratic Party edit Johnson was active in Democratic Party politics as a fundraiser and adviser to presidential campaigns Johnson served as special counsel to John Kerry s 2004 presidential campaign 16 and was an early supporter of Barack Obama s presidential campaign active as a foreign policy adviser and as a member of his national finance committee 17 18 Obama administration editGeneral Counsel of the Department of Defense edit nbsp Johnson swears in Leon Panetta as 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 a voice vote 20 In 2009 Johnson was heavily involved in the reform of military commissions and testified before Congress numerous times in support of the Military Commissions Act of 2009 21 In February 2010 the Secretary of Defense appointed Johnson to co chair a working group along with Army General Carter 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 at The Heritage Foundation in 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 at Yale Law School in February 2012 Johnson defended targeted killings 24 At the Oxford Union in 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 to kill Osama bin Laden 30 Secretary of Homeland Security edit nbsp Johnson visits Pulse nightclub after shooting which left 49 people dead in Orlando Johnson was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the fourth U S Secretary of Homeland Security in October 2013 and was subsequently confirmed by the United States Senate on 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 his unity of effort initiative 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 the United States experienced a large influx of immigrants many of whom were children coming from Central America 35 Secretary Johnson and his Department worked with the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate a response to address the immigrants needs In June U S Citizenship and Immigrations Services asylum officers were reassigned to conduct credible fear interviews 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 The ACLU has compared them to Japanese internment camps and 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 nbsp Johnson speaking at the Islamic Society of North America convention in Chicago in September 2016 During the summer and fall of 2014 Secretary Johnson oversaw the Department of Homeland Security s response to the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa 37 The Ebola epidemic was the largest in history and impacted multiple West African countries In response the Department of Homeland Security developed 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 nbsp Johnson met with law enforcement officials and National Football League security prior to Super Bowl 50 After the House of Representatives failed to act on Bill S 744 Secretary Johnson and President Obama issued ten new executive actions on November 20 2014 to address the 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States 39 third party source needed Johnson is said to have worked heavily on drafting the executive actions at the behest of the President 40 Career after Obama administration editFor the inauguration of Donald Trump Johnson was chosen as the designated survivor and would have become the next president if a disaster or attack had occurred 41 After leaving office in January 2017 Johnson rejoined the law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton amp Garrison in New York City 42 13 He is also a member of the boards of directors of Lockheed Martin 43 44 U S Steel 45 the National September 11 Memorial amp Museum 46 WBGO 47 and a trustee of Columbia University He is also now a frequent commentator on NBC s Meet 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 amp 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 of The 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 at Liberty University on September 11 2020 in which he discussed the importance of morality in political leadership 56 57 In April 2020 Governor Phil Murphy appointed Johnson to represent New Jersey in the seven state regional working group to develop a plan for reopening the economy following the COVID 19 crisis 58 In June 2020 Chief Judge of New York State Janet 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 for United States Secretary of Defense United States Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration 63 In February 2023 Johnson and his family history were profiled on PBS s Finding 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 editOn March 18 1994 Johnson married Susan Maureen DiMarco a dentist at Corpus 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 in Wappingers Falls New York 67 He has been a resident of Montclair New Jersey 68 Johnson was present in New York City during the September 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 editList of African American United States Cabinet membersReferences edit Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee 1st Session 111th Congress PDF Report 2009 Archived PDF from the original on March 30 2016 a b Weddings Jeh C Johnson and Susan DiMarco The New York Times March 20 1994 Archived from the original on February 22 2015 Retrieved February 22 2015 Jeh Vincent Johnson 1931 Contemporary Black Biography Archived from the original on October 8 2017 Retrieved November 26 2020 Milton and Yvonne Edelin Scholarship Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Retrieved January 2 2021 He was the only Black student in his class and he became good friends with Jeh Johnson 53CC 58GSAPP the only black student in the class ahead of his Jeh would also later become his brother in law McFadden Robert D December 31 2013 Doctor was at center of landmark case The New York Times Atlanta Georgia p B6 Retrieved January 2 2021 Besides his wife and four children Edelin is survived by eight grandchildren a brother Milton and a sister Norma Edelin Johnson Johnson Charles Spurgeon December 1 1987 Bitter Canaan Transaction Publishers p 1xxiii fn 171 ISBN 978 1 4128 1871 1 Archived from the original on December 2 2020 Retrieved November 26 2020 Watch the Wappinger Town Memorial Day Ceremony Featuring Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson Town of Wappinger townofwappingerny gov Retrieved September 26 2023 Pace Julie Cassata Donna Dutchess Jeh Johnson could be next defense secretary Poughkeepsie Journal Archived from the original on December 3 2020 Retrieved December 2 2020 Johnson who previously served as the Pentagon s general counsel is a 1975 graduate of Roy C Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls Galanes Philip October 17 2015 Homeland Times Two Claire Danes and Jeh Johnson The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on September 29 2020 Retrieved December 2 2020 JJ My dad was an architect and he ended up teaching at Vassar for 37 years But I was a big underachiever in school PG Was that rebellion JJ It was a predominantly white mostly blue collar town and I didn t have a lot of African American role models I became a C D student Jeh Johnson ex Secretary of Homeland Security Chambers Associate Archived from the original on June 23 2017 Retrieved December 2 2020 Specifically my first semester of sophomore year at Morehouse College after I finally realized I was not going to be a professional baseball or football player I had no more excuses to avoid the books and lifting my GPA above a dismal 1 8 Clayton Mark October 18 2013 Homeland Security Can Jeh Johnson handle agency s big challenges The Christian Science Monitor ISSN 0882 7729 Archived from the original on November 18 2020 Retrieved December 3 2020 a b Jeh Johnson 1996 40 Under 40 Crain s New York Business Rising Star Crain s New York Business January 1996 Archived from the original on June 21 2018 Retrieved June 21 2018 a b c d Jeh Charles Johnson Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton amp Garrison Archived from the original on March 15 2008 The US Military Is Pouring Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Tiny 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Johnson United States Department of Homeland Security January 20 2017 Archived from the original on April 13 2016 Retrieved February 1 2017 a b Unity of Effort One Year Later Homeland Security www dhs gov April 22 2015 Retrieved October 20 2015 a b c Statement by Secretary Johnson About the Situation Along the Southwest Border Homeland Security www dhs gov September 8 2014 Retrieved October 5 2015 a b I Know an American Internment Camp When I See One May 21 2015 Retrieved October 5 2015 a b Ebola Response Homeland Security www dhs gov Retrieved October 5 2015 Remarks By Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C Johnson On Achieving Our Homeland Security While Preserving Our Values And Our Liberty At Westminster College As Delivered dhs gov Department of Homeland Security September 16 2015 Retrieved September 16 2015 Immigration Action www dhs gov Archived from the original on July 12 2016 Retrieved October 5 2015 Palmer Anna Kim Seung Min Brown Carrie Budoff November 20 2014 How Obama got 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Elected to U S Steel Board of Directors Press release GlobeNewswire Archived from the original on November 13 2020 Retrieved November 3 2020 Jeh Johnson National September 11 Memorial amp Museum 911memorial org Archived from the original on November 26 2020 Retrieved April 28 2020 Board of Trustees www wbgo org Archived from the original on April 27 2020 Retrieved April 28 2020 Jeh Johnson WBGO Capehart Jonathan Jeh Johnson on separating immigrant families It s just something I couldn t do The Washington Post Archived from the original on April 30 2019 Retrieved November 27 2020 Johnson Jeh Charles July 6 2018 Abolishing ICE is not a serious policy proposal The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Archived from the original on April 30 2019 Retrieved November 27 2020 Gilliland Donald February 26 2019 Words have consequences Lessons for political leaders on both sides The Hill Archived from the original on April 30 2019 Retrieved April 30 2019 Opinion Sirhan Sirhan s crime against America NBC News December 16 2021 https www reaganfoundation org media 299036 rndf release peace through strength award 2018 final pdf bare URL PDF An American Statesman Jeh Johnson Has Devoted His Career to the Public Interest Ellis Island Medals of Honor Archive Kruse Michael September 10 2020 Why an Obama Loyalist Is Speaking at Liberty University About Moral Leadership Politico Archived from the original on September 13 2020 Retrieved November 27 2020 Smith Garold September 11 2020 Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson shares leadership lessons Liberty University Archived from the original on September 12 2020 Retrieved September 13 2020 Munoz Daniel J April 16 2020 Murphy names picks to regional council to reopen Mid Atlantic economies NJBIZ Archived from the original on April 24 2020 Retrieved December 2 2020 Alder Madison June 9 2020 Jeh Johnson Tapped by New York Courts to Lead Racial Bias Review Bloomberg Law Archived from the original on June 21 2020 Retrieved June 18 2020 Report from the Special Adviser on Equal Justice in the New York State Courts PDF ABA launches Task Force for American Democracy to educate citizenry improve voter confidence Task Force Chaired by Jeh Johnson Brad Karp To Review Legal Strategies for Maintaining Diversity in Wake of U S Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action June 29 2023 Who Are Contenders for Biden s Cabinet The New York Times November 11 2020 Archived from the original on November 15 2020 Retrieved November 11 2020 Jeh Charles Johnson PBS February 21 2023 Retrieved March 1 2023 A Good Life Paul Weiss Jeh Johnson Accepting NYSBA Award Reflects on Career of Service New York Law Journal January 19 2024 Navy to Christen Submarine New Jersey Brady Lois Smith April 10 1994 Jeh Johnson and Susan DiMarco The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on October 30 2016 Retrieved November 27 2020 Stirling Stephen Montclair resident Jeh Johnson to be named U S Homeland Security secretary Archived December 3 2020 at the Wayback Machine NJ Advance Media for NJ com October 17 2013 updated March 30 2019 Accessed December 2 2020 Montclair resident Jeh Johnson will be nominated by President Obama as the next Homeland Security secretary according to a U S Senate aide briefed by the White House on the nomination Nakashima Ellen October 19 2013 Jeh Johnson nominated as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 ProQuest 1443165796 Archived from the original on October 24 2013 Retrieved February 1 2017 Remarks by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson at the Woodrow Wilson Center Department of Homeland Security February 7 2014 Archived from the original on April 19 2019 Retrieved May 2 2019 Straw Joseph Homeland Security nominee Jeh Johnson I am a New Yorker New York Daily News Archived from the original on March 14 2017 Retrieved February 1 2017 Memoli Michael A December 16 2013 Jeh Johnson confirmed as Homeland Security secretary Los Angeles Times 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