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Marvin Johnson is a nationally recognized mediator, arbitrator, and trainer with 30 years of dispute resolution experience, and 16 years as Professor of Labor Relations, Law and Conflict Management. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution and serves on the JAMS panel of resolution experts.
Mr. Johnson received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Catholic University. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Kent State University and a Master of Science in Industrial Relations from the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Johnson has worked for the Department of Labor, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the National Treasury Employees Union, the National Football League Players’ Association, the National Academy of Conciliators, and was Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and Dispute Resolution at Bowie State University.
As a consultant, Mr. Johnson serves as a mediator, an arbitrator, a fact-finder, and a facilitator in public and private disputes. He provides diversity and dispute resolution training and lectures extensively on the subject of conflict management. Mr. Johnson has mediated over 2,000 cases in the field of employment, labor-management, consumer, business, and community. He has more than 25 years of experience in labor relations including contract negotiations, grievance handling, mediation, labor-management cooperation and arbitration, and has trained over 10,000 people in various forms of dispute resolution including mediation, joint problem solving, arbitration, facilitation and interest-based bargaining. Mr. Johnson is an experienced facilitator/trainer working with organizations where employees need assistance in communicating and working together. In January 1998, Mr. Johnson traveled to Vorkuta, Russia to provide mediation training to a select group of executives, managers and employees, and in May 2000 and April 2002 he provided dispute resolution training to a group of Young African Leaders. In May 2003, Mr. Johnson provided conflict management training to representatives of Central and Eastern European Roma Organizations.
The President of the United States, the Secretary of the United States Department of State, the Governor of Maryland, and the Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals have recognized Mr. Johnson’s dispute resolution expertise by appointing him to the Federal Service Impasses Panel, the Foreign Service Grievance Board, the Maryland State Labor Relations Board, and the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO).
Mr. Johnson is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Mediators; a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Conflict Resolution; and a member of the National Bar Association, Arbitration Section. He is a member of the Council of the ABA’s Section of Dispute Resolution and Liaison to the Section’s Diversity Committee; a member of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators; and is a member of the US Consensus Council-Policy Consensus Professional Advisory Committee. Mr. Johnson is an Executive Committee member of the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office and Chair of its Education and Schools Initiative.
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Marvin Johnson
