1st Woman Named to Top Bar Post
The State Bar Board of Governors appointed attorney Judy Johnson as the bar’s new chief executive officer, the first woman to hold the position in the organization’s 73-year history.
Johnson, 51, has been the bar’s chief trial counsel since 1994. She is also a former member of the bar’s Board of Governors.
Johnson replaces Steve Nissen, who left the post in March 1999 after he was appointed special assistant to Gov. Gray Davis.
Johnson, who graduated from Stanford University and UC Davis school of law, was the first woman president of the Charles Houston Bar Assn.
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