He then earned a dual juris doctor from Harvard Law School and master of business administration from Harvard Business School in 1978.
Johns joined the Protective Life Corporation in 1993 as Executive Vice President and CFO.
Earlier in his career, Johns served as General Counsel at Sonat and helped found Maynard Cooper & Gale, a law firm in Birmingham, Alabama.
He was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor in late 2013, in part for his nine years of service to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
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