BRYAN JOHNSTON
Visiting Professor
J.D., Loyola University (Chicago)
B.A., Northern Illinois University

Bryan Johnston’s career is largely a mixture of civic engagement and higher education. He has been elected Oregon State Representative twice. He has served as Interim Director of the Oregon Department of Human Services, the state’s largest agency. He has also served as interim president at Willamette University, been Dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management and Professor of Conflict Management, Associate Dean at Willamette’s College of Law, Director of Willamette’s Center for Dispute Resolution, and Professor of Law. He has taught as visiting faculty at Pepperdine School of Law, University of Oregon, University of Bridgeport and University of New Mexico.

Between these various appointments, Bryan also conducted a consulting practice: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, ethics, and crisis management. He has conducted over 200 seminars and workshops for private and public sector enterprises, federal, state, county and municipality governments and agencies, as well as corporate clients such as NIKE, SAIF, State Farm, GTE, and JAMS-Endispute. He has worked with clients throughout the United States, and under the auspices of the United States Agency for International Development, has worked in Eastern Europe. He is the author of a textbook on dispute resolution and multiple articles on negotiation and mediation. He returned to consulting full time in November of 2005.

Bryan is originally from Chicago. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University and his law degree from Loyola of Chicago School of Law. He first practiced law as a VISTA, Volunteer in Service to America, representing impoverished parties in civil matter. Later he moved to the criminal courts of Chicago, where he served as an assistant public defender. He moved to Oregon in 1978.

• Negotiation
• Public Management
• Leadership