Mark R. Johnson
Planning Branch Chief,
Cal EMA
Mark has served his community for 38 years as an emergency manager.
From 1973 to 1989 Mark performed as an engine company fire captain and fire academy instructor. During that period he taught classes in course design and instructional methodology at the National Fire Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland.
From 1989 to 2002, Mark worked as an emergency manager in Orange County, California, developing countywide emergency plans and responding to state and federally declared disasters. He became staff to the City Manager in Dana Point, California, where he was elected Chairperson of the Interjurisdictional Planning Committee for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. He also participated on the Cal State Fullerton’s Disaster Management Certificate Program Advisory Committee.
In 2002, Mark was employed by the California Emergency Management Agency as a Regional Manager. Mark now serves as the Planning Branch Chief overseeing development of the 2009 State Emergency Plan and participating in the development of joint state-federal catastrophic plans.
Mark has a Bachelors’ Degree in Fire Administration from Cogswell Polytechnical College, in Sunnyvale, California.
