[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 65 (Thursday, April 30, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S4960]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             TRIBUTE TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL MARGARET JOHNSON

 Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, today I honor in the Record of the 
Senate LTC Margaret A. Johnson of the Georgia Army National Guard on 
the occasion of her retirement after 22 years of service.
  Lieutenant Colonel Johnson, who is from Macon, GA, graduated from 
Wesleyan College in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in English, and in 
1976 received a master's degree in English from the University of South 
Florida. In 1980 she graduated from Mercer University's Walter F. 
George School of Law with a juris doctor degree. Lieutenant Colonel 
Johnson took her impressive resume to the Georgia National Guard and 
was commissioned as first lieutenant into the Judge Advocate General 
Corps.
  During her 22 years of service, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson was given 
many challenging assignments throughout the United States, and rose to 
the challenge on each and every occasion. When her country asked her to 
serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, she answered the call 
and has spent the last 2 years on active duty. Lieutenant Colonel 
Johnson culminated her career as the deputy staff judge advocate for 
the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy 
Combatants, Arlington, VA, where she rose to the challenge once again 
and performed her job duties excellently. She provided much-needed 
leadership for a legal department that had to quickly respond to ever 
changing standards established by Congress and the Federal courts.
  In testament to her service, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson was awarded 
the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Reserve Components 
Achievement Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Global War on 
Terrorism Medal and the Georgia Meritorious Service Medal. I honor LTC 
Margaret A. Johnson on the occasion of her retirement, and I extend to 
her my sincere gratitude for her dedication to the defense of our 
nation. I know that Lieutenant Colonel Johnson's children, Mary 
Catherine Johnson and Margaret Amy Allen, are so proud of their mother 
for her long and distinguished career, and I would also like to express 
my gratitude to them as well.

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