Cory Johnson

Cory Johnson has spent his career in public service and in solving complicated problems. He served fourteen years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army and Army National Guard — work that runs on the same fundamentals good governance does: get the facts right, make the call with incomplete information, own the outcome. That pull toward service is what led him to run for his local school board.

He has served on the board of Independent School District 196 — Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan — since 2020, and serves as its chair. He is a trustee of the Minnesota School Boards Association Insurance Trust and a past District Director for the MSBA, which means he has seen governance from more than one board table.

By day, Cory is an Agile Product Coach at Travelers, where he’s spent more than fifteen years and now focuses on strategic planning and executive coaching. The short version of the job: he teaches people how to solve complex problems. He holds a Master’s of Applied Science from the University of Denver and a BA in Organizational Management from Concordia University–St. Paul.