Noel T. Johnson was born in New Orleans Louisiana and lived there until age nine.

His family then relocated to Washington, D.C., where his father made the transition from

teaching university mathematics and physics to computerized ship design with the federal

Maritime Administration. His mother, a native of Baltimore, spent her considerable energies

caring for their four children.

After graduating from the Catholic University of America, Mr. Johnson worked as a

studio cameraman for local television station WDCA-TV in Bethesda, Maryland. He later

attended the Tulane University School of Law and received his J.D. in 1985. While in law

school, he clerked for a federal magistrate, interned for the Office of the United States

Attorney for the District of Columbia, and investigated the legal status of public interest legal

foundations.

After law school, Mr. Johnson served as a legal assistant at the firm of Fried, Frank,

Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson. There he worked on high-profile insider trading litigation and

edited training materials on banking and securities law. He then worked as a law clerk for the

D.C. Office of Bar Counsel.

In 1987, Mr. Johnson was hired as an attorney at the Office of the Corporation

Counsel. For three years, he served as trial counsel in the Child Support Section. In that

capacity, he sought to establish paternity and to establish, modify, and enforce child

support orders. In 1990, he was appointed Assistant Section Chief, and in 1993 became

Chief of the Child Support Section.

During his tenure as OCC's Child Support Section Chief, Mr. Johnson crafted

innovative paternity and support legislation and participated in the design of the District's

automated data processing system. Also while serving as Section Chief, he wrote

procedures for the integration of child support services into the District's Domestic Violence

Intake Center. When the DVIC opened its doors in November 1996, Mr. Johnson

became OCC's Director of Child Support Operations in the new facility. In that capacity, he

was responsible for policy and procedural direction while personally litigating an

exceedingly high volume of paternity and support matters.

An avid cyclist, Mr. Johnson has completed the D.C. AIDS Ride for the past 3

years.