Nicholas Johnson, Neighbor

Iowa City native Nicholas Johnson's roles have included those of an academic and law professor; government official and school board member; public interest advocate; administrator, manager and corporate representative; writer, lecturer, TV and radio performer; politician; lawyer; and public health, computer and telecommunications policy specialist.

He has travelled widely, currently teaches law, and has been a columnist and public lecturer, computer enthusiast, and fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He has formerly, among many other things, served as co-director of a public health public policy institute, network TV host, congressional candidate, author of books, articles and a nationally syndicated column, FCC Commissioner, school board member, U.S. Maritime Administrator, and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

In 2009 he was included in <i>The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law</i> as one of 700 individuals described by the publisher as &#34;leading figures in the history of Ameican law, from the colonial era to the present day.&#34;

He was born in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1934, the son of Wendell and Edna Johnson.  In 1980 he returned from Washington, D.C., to Iowa City -- giving rise to the name of his blog, &#34;FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com.&#34;

Since then he has been teaching at the UI College of Law, and maintaining http://FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com and http://www.nicholasjohnson.org.

He and his wife, Mary Vasey, have seven children, five grandchildren, three great grandchildren, two cats and seven fish.

For more detail see specifically the Bio at http://www.nicholasjohnson.org/about/njbio04.html

(from which this excerpt has been taken) and more generally,

http://www.nicholasjohnson.org/about