Dr. Ernest L. Johnson, Sr., Esq.
Ernest L. Johnson has over 29 years professional, leadership and management experience in a number of high-level legal, financial, educational, civic and public policy positions. Dr. Johnson is a member of the national NAACP Board of Directors. Most recently, Mr. Johnson was appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2001 to serve as a public delegate to
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the United Nations General Assembly. A 1973 honors graduate of Grambling State University with a major in political science and a minor in economics, Mr. Johnson earned his law degree from Southern University Law Center, where he also received recognition for numerous academic and civic achievements, including election to the office of president of Southern’s Student Bar Association.
After a distinguished academic career in which he was awarded the prestigious Earl Warren Legal Fellowship and the Baker-Voorhis Award, among other honors, Mr. Johnson established a multifaceted legal practice specializing in general, corporate and Civil Rights litigation. Over the past 29 years, Mr. Johnson has served as lead counsel, co-counsel or legal consultant on a number of high profile public interest and Civil Rights cases that have had a profoundly positive and lasting impact on justice for minorities, the quality of public and higher education, and the resolution of legal issues related to financial and insurance industries
Beyond his legal career, Mr. Johnson, an ordained Minister, has achieved distinction in numerous other educational and civic endeavors. He served for one year as vice-chairman of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Committee for Grambling State University, which resulted in significant operational and educational improvements, and has served as an adjunct professor at Southern University Law School since 1984. He served as Diversity Office Coordinator for President George W. Bush’s Inaugural Committee in 2001.
His civic achievements are also noteworthy. He is President of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP and serves as a member of the NAACP’s National Resolutions Committee from Region VI. During his tenure with the NAACP, he has consistently won many of the top awards for related achievements, including the Alexander Pierre Tureaud Award, the Thalheimer Award, Kelly M. Alexander Award and the Medgar Evers Award, to name a few.
Mr. Johnson has an extensive and proven working knowledge of financial and insurance institutions, budgeting and personnel management procedures. Since 1997, he has been president and CEO of Louisiana Community Development Capital Fund, Inc., a consulting company that provides financial and business management assistance to small emerging businesses. The U. S. Department of the Treasury has certified Capfund as a community development financial institution.
He also served as president and CEO of Life Savings Bank in Baton Rouge for three years and as CEO of Capital Organizing Task Force Group, a consulting company that contracted with clients seeking contracts with the federal government to acquire failed savings & loans institutions. He has gained extensive experience in radio station business development serving as co-founder of WNDC AM Baton Rouge (1988), KCLF AM New Roads (1990), WTQT-LPFM Baton Rouge (2003), KVTZ-LPFM Breaux Bridge (2004), KOUS-LPFM Monroe and KTJZ-FM Tallulah. Mr. Johnson filed all documentation required to obtain FCC approval for these stations, development operating procedures for each and served as operations compliance officers. He is the current general manager of WTQT-LPFM while serving as President & CEO of Mid South Communications Company.
