Tim Johnson
United States Attorney 
Southern District of Texas
Tim Johnson has been appointed to serve as United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, one of the largest of the nation's 94 federal judicial districts. The district consists of 43 counties from Huntsville to Laredo and includes the metropolitan region centered by Houston, the Texas Gulf Coast region with the Padre Island National Seashore and Wildlife Preserve, the King Ranch and other vast ranch lands and the United States-Mexico border along the stretch of the Rio Grande River from Brownsville to Laredo. Houston is headquarters for the district. Staffed branch offices are located within the district at Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen and Victoria.
Johnson received a bachelor of business administration degree, majoring in accounting, from the University of Texas in 1977. From 1977-1985, he was a special agent with the Intelligence Division and later the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). While working for IRS, he attended law school at South Texas College of Law, graduating in 1984.
In 1985, Johnson joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division, prosecuting violations of federal law including bank robbery, tax fraud and money laundering and fraud committed against the United States. In 1989, Johnson joined the Houston office of Weil, Gotshal and Manges where he practiced general litigation and white collar criminal defense. From 1994 to 2006, Johnson had his own law practice representing individuals and corporations in matters before the United States and its various agencies.
In 2006, Johnson returned to the United States Attorney's Office to serve as First Assistant United States Attorney under then United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle. In that role, Johnson served as the second in command of the office and oversaw the activities of the more than 150 Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the criminal, civil and appellate divisions representing the United States in the federal courts throughout the 43-county area.
Johnson is a member of the American Bar Association in which he served as co-chair of the White Collar Crime Southwest Regional Tax Fraud Committee from 1985-2006, Houston Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, State Bar of Texas and is a Life Fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation.
Johnson will lead the district until a new United States Attorney is appointed by the new presidential administration.