Thomas L. Johnson

Tel: 612/632-3207
Fax: 612/632-4207
Attorney - Minneapolis
thomas.johnson@gpmlaw.com

Support Staff: Carol Krueger, 612/632-3262

Tom is a principal at Gray Plant Mooty and practices in the areas of Environmental and Land Use law, Government Relations and Public Law and Finance. He represents a wide variety of public and private clients before local, state and federal government. He was the Hennepin County Attorney from 1979-1991. He also served on the Minneapolis City Council (1973-1977).

He lectures frequently on environmental law and other topics and has published numerous articles for both legal and business audiences. Tom recently provided legal counsel for the environmental review of the new Gopher football stadium and the Twin’s baseball stadium. Tom regularly assists developer and landowner clients in land use issues, particularly relating to environmental remediation, project financing and development agreements.

Tom has served on the Board of Directors for numerous state and national organizations and has been the recipient of many awards including the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Quality Award, the President’s Award from the National District Attorney’s Association and the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Professional Excellence Award.

Tom earned his Bachelor of Physics with honors at the University of Minnesota in 1967, and he received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1970. In 1992, he received his LL.M., with distinction, from the London School of Economics.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Adjunct Professor, University of St. Thomas Law School

Council on Crime and Justice, past President

Project Innocence, Board Member

Bench and Bar Committee, Hennepin County Bar Association, Former Chair

WATCH, Advisory Board Member

Marcy Holmes Neighborhood Association, Member

Institutional Conflict Review Committee, University of Minnesota

Advisor to numerous political candidates