A conversation with State Senator Nathan Johnson (D-Dallas), moderated by professor of practice and Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith.
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Nathan Johnson - Senator Nathan Johnson represents almost a million people in Senate District 16, a rapidly growing and diversifying area in Dallas County.
First elected in 2018 with bipartisan support, he has become a leading voice in healthcare, the electrical grid, government transparency, criminal justice, and state infrastructure.
Johnson knows that policymakers must meet the changing demands of Texas’s rapid growth and profound economic, social, and technological advances. This means developing new infrastructure – both physical (e.g., the electrical grid) and social (e.g., health), and making government more responsive and effective. And so Johnson has played a central role in strengthening the Texas grid; his work in healthcare resulted in hundreds of thousands of newly insured Texans; his work on economic policy promoted opportunity in overlooked regions and made it more difficult to abuse tax incentives; and he has made state agencies more accountable while helping them better meet the needs of the public.
Johnson holds a B.S. in physics and a J.D. in law. He practices law at Thompson Coburn LLP, where he specializes in trial litigation and dispute resolution. He composed dozens of musical scores for the iconic anime series Dragon Ball Z, as well as classical music for the concert stage.