Summary
Mark Johnson is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He began his military service as an enlisted Infantryman in West Germany and later with the Colorado Army National Guard. As a Judge Advocate, his assignments included tours as a prosecutor, defense counsel, senior defense counsel, special assistant U.S. Attorney, government appellate attorney, deputy general counsel for a deployed theater-level command and member of the Army Staff formulating and implementing criminal law related policy. Mark also taught criminal and constitutional law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, where he was the Chair of the Criminal Law Department. For the last several years of his career, he was a judge and later a senior judge, on the Army Court of Criminal Appeals. Mark now teaches classes for the University of Nevada, Reno and Western Nevada College.
Education
- J.D., University of Wyoming College of Law
- M.S., criminal justice, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Master of Justice Management, University of Nevada, Reno
- Master of Laws with criminal law specialty, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School
- B.S., communication, University of Wyoming