Howard Johnson was born 1942 in Oak Park, IL, and graduated from the Oak Park – River Forest high school. He received an A.B.degree from Brown University in 1964 and was a member of the sailing team and the Sigma Chi fraternity. He graduated Georgetown University Law School in 1968 with a J.D. degree where he served on the Moot Court, was a research assistant and received the American Jurisprudence Prize in Taxation.
In 1968, Howard began his career as a law clerk with the U.S. District court, Illinois. In 1970, he joined the firm of Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein, where he became a partner. From 1977 un- til retiring in 2002 as a senior international attorney, he was with the office of general counsel, Texaco, Inc., in White Plains, N.Y. He worked on alternative alternative energy projects in the United States and Germany as well as the acquisition and operational aspects of oil and gas properties in Asia, Russia and Africa.
Howard is a member of the bar in Illinois, New York, Texas and Connecticut. While working at Texaco he served as an adjunct professor at the Pace University School of Law and was a university fellow at Columbia University.
Howard and his wife live in Rowayton and have one child and two grandchildren. He is a member of the Brown Club, the Darien YMCA, the Rowayton Yacht Club, Trout Unlimited, the Crystal Lake & Watershed Association and the American Associa- tion of Individual Investors. He enjoys fly fishing, reading, sailing and spending time in northern Michigan during the summer.
