Mark Johnson:  

I graduated from University High School in 1963 and from Illinois State University in 1967. I married Pam Tebrugge (now Carvey) in September of 1966. Moved to Durham, North Carolina with Pam in September of 1967 to attend Duke Law School and was awarded a JD in June of 1970. Pam and I were divorced in May of 1970. My first job after law school was with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where I investigated "in-school" segregation in Arkansas, concerning desegregation orders issued by the Federal Courts there. I passed the Missouri Bar in October of 1970 and worked for the law firm that is now Lathrop Gage, in Kansas City, Missouri for two years. In late 1972, I joined the Kansas City Legal Aid and Defender Society which became the Public Defender's Office for Jackson County Missouri. In 1976, I became the Public Defender for Platte County, Missouri and went into private practice as a criminal defense attorney. I was married to Ramona Cook, a UHigh class of 1963 graduate in 1976 but we divorced in 1977. I became a member of the Florida Bar in December of 1976, and in June of 1982, I moved to Florida where I worked as an organized crime prosecutor out of the Governor's Office. I was lead prosecutor in the prosecution of Jose Antonio "Pepe: Cabrera, the first Colomibian drug lord extradited to the United States and conducted two trial in 1986, concerning Mr. Cabrera, which resulted in his conviction. Both trial were televised in Florida and a Duke law school classmate later called to tell me he had seen me on television in a ...Expand for more