James R. Johnson is an American university sports administrator and a former

NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen ...

conference commissioner. Johnson is currently the

athletic director An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and ...

for

Pittsburg State University Pittsburg State University (Pitt State or PSU) is a public university in Pittsburg, Kansas. It enrolls approximately 7,400 students (6,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students) and is a member of the Kansas Board of Regents. History P ...

, an

sports program in

Pittsburg, Kansas Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States, located in southeast Kansas near the Missouri state border. It is the most populous city in Crawford County and southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the ci ...

. Previously, Johnson was the Commissioner of the

Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a List of NCAA conferences, college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the NCAA Division II, Division II level, headquartered ...

(MIAA).

Career

Johnson graduated from

Tarleton State University Tarleton State University is a public university with its main campus in Stephenville, Texas. It is a founding member of the Texas A&M University System and enrolled over 14,000 students in the fall of 2020. History John Tarleton Agricultural ...

in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in business administration and in 1990 with a Master of Arts in education. After graduating from Tarleton State, Johnson became Tarleton State's men's athletic coordinator, a position he held for seven years. In 1997, Johnson left Tarleton State to become a government liaison the

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

, specifically the Division II level. In 2003, he left the NCAA for the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

where he served as an associate athletics director, and in 2005, Johnson became the athletics director at

Texas A&M University–Commerce Texas A&M University–Commerce is a public university in Commerce, Texas. With an enrollment of over 12,000 students as of fall 2017, the university is the third-largest institution in the Texas A&M University System. Founded in 1889, the inst ...

Later career

After serving two years at Texas A&M–Commerce, Johnson was selected as the third commissioner for the

(MIAA) in 2010. While serving as commissioner, Johnson helped expand the conference from 10 members to 14 members, with the additions entering the conference July 1, 2012. On July 30, Johnson was selected as the 10th Athletics Director for MIAA school,

. While at Pittsburg State, Johnson has served on the NCAA Division II Football Committee, as well as the NCAA Division II Championships Committee.

References

External links

Pittsburg State profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Jim Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association commissioners National Collegiate Athletic Association people Place of birth missing (living people) Pittsburg State Gorillas athletic directors Texas A&M–Commerce Lions athletic directors Tarleton State University alumni University of Central Missouri people Sportspeople from Kansas