Micheal D. Johnson, an administrator for Denver Public Schools, has been named superintendent at FAMU Developmental Research School after a year-long nationwide search. Johnson will take over on July 1.
Johnson currently serves as senior adviser for equity for Denver Public Schools and director of the school district’s Black Male Achievement Imitative, and works as a professor and capstone evaluator at Regis University.
He has also worked as an instructional superintendent for Denver Public Schools, and executive principal in the district.
Johnson earned his bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Colorado at Denver, and is a doctoral candidate in urban education leadership at the University of Oklahoma.