Lester B. Johnson, III, is the owner and sole stockholder of the Law Firm of Lester B. Johnson, III, P.C. He concentrates his practice in the areas of education law, municipal law, insurance law, personal injury and torts, veteran's benefits and probate law. Since 1982 he has served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Savannah and since 1991 he has served as School Board Attorney for the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education. He is also a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Georgia Department of Corrections and Transportation.
Mr. Johnson is a native Savannahian and graduated from Benedictine Military School in 1971. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from College of the Holy Cross in 1975 and received his juris doctorate degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1978.
Mr. Johnson is active in several professional and civic organizations. He is a member of Medbank Foundation, Inc.; the Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire; Arts Ashore Legacy Foundation; Coastal Children's Advocacy Board; Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Business Brunch Committee; and, Congregations In Service. He also serves on the Wells-Fargo Bank Advisory Board.
Professionally, he is a past President and the first African-American President of the Savannah Bar Association and served as an appointed member of the Board of Governors for the State Bar of Georgia from 2002 to 2004. In 2006 he was elected to the Board of Governors for the State Bar of Georgia and is currently serving his fifth consecutive term. In 2015 he was appointed to a two year term on the Judicial Qualification Commission, the body that disciplines Georgia judges. In 2004 he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgia School Board Association's Council of School Attorneys and is currently serving his fifth consecutive term. He served as its President in 2008 and 2014.
He has been a member of Sigma Pi Phi (The Boule?) since 1997 and has served as Sire Archon and Grapter. He is also a member of the National Bar Association and the Port City Bar Association.
He is married to Salyon H. Johnson, Ed. D. and has three children. In 1975, while attending law school, he converted to Al-Islam and is a member of the local masjid (mosque), where he serves as General Counsel and is a long serving member of the Majlis Ashura (administrative board).
