Jeff Johnson is an Albertan, born-and-bred who grew up in Central Alberta in an oil-patch family with a wheat-farming background. Growing up, he lived in Stettler, Drumheller, a farm near Standard, Alberta, Calgary, and in Sherwood Park. He is deeply familiar with the importance of farming and of the oil industry to the prosperity of Alberta. Jeff has reared, together with his wife Susan, 7 wonderful children in beautiful Riverbend in Edmonton. Jeff is deeply familiar with the fields of education, technology, and health care in the province and has several adult children who work in all three fields of endeavor.

Jeff has dedicated more than three decades of his life to public service. He is a globally-recognized leader in education who began his teaching career at St. Mary School in Riverbend and served for many years as a principal in Edmonton in a variety of schools before continuing in roles of leadership as a school-district level leader and also provincially in education. His dedication and work in education leadership has been recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award from the province of Alberta, a Distinguished Service Award from the Council for School Leadership, and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal presented by the Minister of Education for his service in Education. Jeff continues to provide leadership development programs to school leaders, aspiring school leaders and government leaders globally. He is an in-demand speaker on related topics.

Jeff is no stranger to the world of policy development. Jeff has played a role in education policy development in Alberta for the past 20 years and has had the pleasure of working with most of Alberta’s recent Ministers of Education and with Ministers of Education from multiple other provinces in Canada. Jeff has made presentations in English and French in a broad range of countries, sharing policy advice on education leadership as a guest of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al-Missned of Qatar, the Ministries of Education of Finland and Iceland, and the Minister of Education of New South Wales in Australia, for example. He has worked with senior individuals from the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) and a wide range of teacher and government organizations.

Jeff has demonstrated commitment to conservative politics for many years – including serving as Vice-President of Policy of the Edmonton Whitemud Conservative Association throughout Dave Hancock’s time as MLA in Riverbend and currently on the Edmonton Whitemud UCP Constituency Association as Vice-President of Policy since its inception - a twenty year commitment. Jeff is also an active board member of the federal Edmonton Riverbend Conservative EDA and serves as one of two members representing Alberta on Conservative Party of Canada’s National Policy Committee and on its Oversight Committee.  Jeff also serves on the United Conservative Party’s Provincial Policy & Governance Committee..

Throughout his life Jeff has offered his time and expertise in a volunteer capacity to many worthwhile community causes. Jeff is active in the Riverbend community in Edmonton as a volunteer and as a part of his local parish - St. Thomas More in Riverbend. Jeff has served on the board of the Safe and Caring Schools Society, continues to play a role on the Board of Apple Distinguished Educators for North and South America, the Growth and Innovation Committee of the Covenant Health Board, and several other non-profit organizations.

Jeff is a person of character and is highly-motivated to make a contribution to preserving and strengthening Canadian society for our future and for the future generations of citizens in our local community, the province of Alberta, and Canada.