Keith Johnson

Adjunct Professor

Education:
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography

Mr. Johnson is Program Director of the Wisconsin International Corporate Governance Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he serves as Adjunct Professor of Law. He also heads the Institutional Investor Consulting Services section at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c., where he represents pension funds and other institutional investors on fiduciary, investment, securities litigation and corporate governance program matters. He is currently President of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys (NAPPA) Emeritus Board and a member of the American College of Investment Counsel.

Mr. Johnson served as legal counsel to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the 9th largest public pension fund in the United States, for over 21 years, including almost seven as Chief Legal Counsel. He headed SWIB’s corporate governance and securities litigation program, was on the Governance Committee and Executive Board of the Council of Institutional Investors and was a member of the International Forum of Active Shareowners’ Steering Committee. Mr. Johnson also served on the Executive Board of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys (NAPPA), where he was President of NAPPA and Co-Chair of both the NAPPA Securities Litigation Task Force and the NAPPA Investment and Corporate Governance Section. He was one of the founders of the Directors’ Summit™, a corporate board member training program held annually at the University of Wisconsin Center for Executive Education.

Mr. Johnson has published a number of articles on corporate governance issues and the role of institutional investors in securities litigation and regularly makes presentations to legal and investor organizations. Recent publications include: Investors Gain by New Model for Class Actions Crafted from Anicom Case, Pensions & Investments (May 17, 2004); Rebuilding Corporate Boards and Refocusing Shareholders for the Post-Enron Era, St. John’s Law Review, Vol. 76, Page 787 (Fall 2002) and Deterrence of Corporate Fraud Through Securities Litigation: The Role of Institutional Investors, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 60, Page 155 (Summer 1997); and Ten Insights on Shareholder Proposals, Shareholder Proposal Handbook, Appendix A-14, Aspen Publishers (2002).

He has supervised securities fraud class actions and other shareholder litigation, including the Anicom, CellStar, Rainforest Café, Peerless Systems, Physicians’ Computer Network, Medco Research and Just for Feet lawsuits. Mr. Johnson also served as Chairman of shareholder committees in the Exide Corporation and Cambridge Biotechnology Corporation Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin and is a member of the Wisconsin State Bar and American Bar Association.