Brendan Johnson

Brendan Johnson was born and raised in the Rochester area of Metro Detroit and is running to represent District 9 in Michigan’s State Senate. Serving in his second term on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, he is the youngest county-level elected official in Southeast Michigan. Brendan has a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University and a MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Before joining the County Board, he served as a political analyst in Spain with the U.S. State Department, as a national security analyst for Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, and recently also served as the chief of staff for Michigan State Representative Samantha Steckloff (D-Farmington Hills) in Lansing. During the week, you might find him at a bootcamp class, and on weekends, he is probably playing piano somewhere in the Archdiocese of Detroit, where he has been a music minister since 2007. He loves the arts, is an avid AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO), is very likely to give you a fun fact, and loves hiking through our nation’s national parks with his boyfriend, Chris.