Joel Johnson

Joel Johnson may refer to:

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Joel Johnson (Michigan politician)

Joel Johnson is a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, first elected in 2010 and re-elected to a second term in 2012. His district consists of Clare, Gladwin, Arenac and eastern Osceola counties.

Prior to his election to the House, Johnson was the manager of Johnston Elevator in Clare. He is also a former president of the Clare Area Chamber of Commerce, a former board member of the Clare County Farm Bureau and the Michigan Agri-Business Association, and is a member of the Clare Rotary Club and the National Rifle Association.

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Joel Johnson (communications strategist)

Joel Johnson (born in 1961 in Elmore, Ohio) is a managing director of the Glover Park Group, a strategic communications firm, and former Senior Advisor for Policy and Communications to President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001. Johnson has also worked on the staff of former senators Tom Daschle and Howard Metzenbaum. In 2001, he co-founded The Harbour Group, a public relations company, before leaving to join John Kerry's presidential campaign. Johnson became a managing director of the Glover Park Group in 2005.

Federal government

Johnson joined the staff of Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum in 1982, while a student at the University of Maryland. Starting in the mail room, he was later promoted to legislative assistant and then chief of staff. Johnson remained on Metzenbaum's staff until he retired from the Senate in 1994.

In 1994, Johnson assumed the role of executive director of the Democratic Study Group, a legislative service organization in the House of Representatives. The following year, he became an assistant secretary on the staff of South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle. In 1996, Daschle named Johnson the staff director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committee, specializing in policy and communications strategy. During Johnson's five-year tenure with Daschle, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that he was a key strategist behind the Democrats' efforts to positively frame their role in the 1995 government shutdown, and he worked on the Democratic Policy Committee as the staff director of leadership communications. He also oversaw the running of the Democratic Senate leadership's television studio, completed in 1996, in the Hart Senate Office Building.