Board Member Profile

Lonnie L. Johnson is currently a Vice President/General Counsel at

LegalWATCH, Inc. Before serving in his current position, Lonnie served in various positions within Exxon and ExxonMobil.  These positions include; Senior Director, Federal Relations, ExxonMobil Corporation

Strategic Issues Manager, ExxonMobil Corporation, Counsel for ExxonMobil Exploration and Development projects in the Gulf of Mexico, Madagascar, and Nigeria; Refinery Attorney, Baytown and Beaumont Texas refinerie,s and Trial Attorney, Exxon Company U.S.A., Houston, Texas.

Lonnie received his J.D, with distinction, from The University of Iowa College of Law, where he served on the Iowa Law Review, and was a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. He earned his B.S.B.A. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Lonnie currently serves on the Board of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO); and has been active in the State Bar of Texas, having served as a member of the Legal Services to the Poor Committee and past chair of the Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession Committee.  He has served on various committees of the Houston Bar Association, the Houston Lawyers Association, the National Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

In 1988, Lonnie became the youngest person elected to serve as President of the Omaha Nebraska Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and has served various other community organizations including the National Urban League. Lonnie is married to Eartha Jean Johnson and they have three children.