Jeh Johnson
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| 4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security | |
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In office December 23, 2013 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Alejandro Mayorkas |
| Preceded by | Rand Beers (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | John Kelly |
| General Counsel of the Department of Defense | |
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In office February 10, 2009 – December 31, 2012 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | William J. Haynes, II |
| Succeeded by | Stephen W. Preston |
| General Counsel of the Air Force | |
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In office 1998–2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Sheila C. Cheston |
| Succeeded by | Mary L. Walker |
| Personal details | |
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Jeh Charles Johnson September 11, 1957 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Susan DiMarco (1994–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Morehouse College (BA) Columbia University (JD) |
Jeh (pronounced "Jay") Charles Johnson (born September 11, 1957) is an American civil and criminal trial lawyer, who was the fourth United States Secretary of Homeland Security 2013 to 2017. He was the General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2012 during the first Obama Administration. Johnson is a graduate of Morehouse College (B.A.) and Columbia Law School (J.D.), and is the grandson of sociologist and Fisk University president Dr. 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.
Johnson served as Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1989 to 1991. From 1998 to 2001, he was General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force under President Bill Clinton. Prior to his appointment as General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Johnson was a partner at the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, in which he was the first African American elected partner and to which he returned after his four years at the Defense Department. He was elected a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2004.
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