Background
Johnson, Donald Lee was born on March 8, 1934 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of Kenneth Lloyd Johnson and Lila Gertrude Coddington Morrison.
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Johnson, Donald Lee was born on March 8, 1934 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of Kenneth Lloyd Johnson and Lila Gertrude Coddington Morrison.
Associate of Arts, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California, 1963. Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, University Kansas, 1972.
Acting assistant professor geography, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969;
assistant professor, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, 1970;
assistant professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1970-1976;
associate professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1976-1988;
professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1988. Visiting fellow geography department Australian National U., Canberra, 1985. Distinguished visiting professor geography University Texas, Austin, 1989.
Consultant, associate research geologist II, Department Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, summers 1979, 81, 84, 86, 88. Research associate Santa Barbara Museum National History, since 1978.
Fellow Geological Society of America (Rip Rapp Archeological Geology award 1993). Member Association American Geographers (G.K. Gilbert award 1990, editorial board annals, 1984-1987), Soil Science Society of America.
Married Diana Neilson, July 6, 1963. Children: Elizabeth, Jennifer, Kathleen.