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Heritage hires military legislative House staffer for defense budget policy job

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on May 28, 2015

Rep. Doug Lamborn's (R-Colo.) deputy chief of staff and military legislative assistant will be working on similar issues with a new job on the outside at the Heritage Foundation.

Justin Johnson, a veteran defense policy staffer, took a position this month as senior budget analyst for defense budgeting policy at the Heritage Foundation after leaving Lamborn's staff. Johnson started with Lamborn in 2013 and also worked as legislative assistant and director for Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) between 2005 and 2013.

Heritage's advocacy wing lobbies on a variety of issues and the foundation sponsors trips for members and staffers, including one for Johnson in 2012 to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His overnight trip cost Heritage $265 for meetings on leadership lessons derived from the Battle of Gettysburg and battlefield site tours. 

Johnson also served as a Heritage George Marshall Fellow in 2012. He has a 2003 bachelor's from Covenant College and a 2012 master's in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College.