JoAnn Johnson

Senator JoAnn Johnson was named a recess appointee to the NCUA Board January 22, 2002, by George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 22, 2002. Senator Johnson was named NCUA Board Vice Chair in January 2003 and the agency’s Chairman on May 1, 2004. The Board consists of three members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to regulate all federally chartered credit unions and administer the federal insurance fund for approximately 9,300 credit unions nationwide.

JoAnn Johnson was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1994, where she chaired the Senate Ways and Means Committee from 1996 to 2000 and the Senate Commerce Committee from 2000 until appointed to the NCUA Board.

Johnson’s political activities began in 1984 as a congressional campaign volunteer. She went on to become campaign organization director and then campaign manager. Johnson successfully managed her brother’s campaign for the Iowa House in 1992 before she ran for the State Senate. In addition, she served as the Iowa Legislative Co-Chairman for Bush-Cheney 2000.

A former teacher, Johnson taught kindergarten through twelfth grade physical education classes and coached girls basketball and track and boys junior-high football. She was actively involved in family farming and served her community in numerous ways -- 4-H leader, director of the local food pantry, economic development board, Sunday school teacher, library board and school board, university alumni board and Rotary International.

Johnson holds a BA degree from the University of Northern Iowa. She is one of seven children raised on a dairy farm near Casey, Iowa, is married to Brian Johnson and has two adult children, Clint and Brooke.

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), governed by a three-member board, is the independent federal agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. NCUA, with the backing of the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, operates the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF), insuring the deposits of 80 million account holders in all federal credit unions and many state-chartered credit unions.