Jeh Johnson is the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2013-2017). Johnson now practices law again in New York City at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP. In private life Johnson is also on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, U.S. Steel, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for a New American Security and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. Prior to becoming Secretary of Homeland Security, Johnson was appointed by President Obama to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2009-2012) and appointed by President Clinton to be General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1998-2001). Earlier in his career, Johnson was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1989-1991). Johnson is a graduate of Morehouse College (1979) and Columbia Law School (1982), and the recipient of 10 honorary degrees. He has debated at both the Oxford and Cambridge Unions in England.