Matthew E. Johnson (born February 10, 1963) is a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
[1] After graduating, Johnson worked as a staff auditor for the Prudential Insurance Company in Minneapolis, and then as a staff assistant to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
He spent the next two years as a judicial clerk, first for Charles R. Wolle of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and then for David R. Hansen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
In 2007, Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed Johnson to a new seat on the Minnesota Court of Appeals, beginning January 1, 2008.
Pawlenty later appointed him as chief judge, serving from November 1, 2010, to October 31, 2013.