George Marion Johnson was an American lawyer and Howard University professor who was the first vice-chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico Johnson graduated from UC Berkeley with an A.B., law degree and LLD. He returned to UC Berkeley in 1938 to obtain a J.S.D., a doctorate in law degree and became one of the first African Americans in the nation to hold this advanced degree. He had a legal career as a tax attorney and was the first African American hired as California State Assistant Tax Counsel. Johnson was recruited as a law professor at #HowardUniversity where he taught Contracts, Equity and Personal Property courses. He served as acting General Counsel for the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) established to monitor President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 8802, which banned discrimination in U.S. defense plants. Johnson was named Dean of the HowardU Law School (#HUSL). While there, he introduced the first tax law cou...