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Yes, Mike Johnson is a lawyer
. Before he was elected to Congress and became Speaker of the House, he built a legal career focused on conservative and religious liberty causes.
Education
- Undergraduate: He earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Louisiana State University in 1995.
- Law School: He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1998.
Legal career highlights
- Non-profit legal defense: Johnson worked for nearly two decades with the Alliance Defense Fund (now Alliance Defending Freedom), a conservative Christian legal organization.
- Advocacy: As a constitutional lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, Johnson appeared before the Louisiana Supreme Court to defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
- Dean of a law school: In 2010, Johnson became the inaugural dean of the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law at Louisiana College, a position he held for two years. The school ultimately never opened.
- Constitutional law professor: He has also worked as a constitutional law seminar instructor.
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