Patrick Johnston is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Foundation on the Economy and the Environment. He currently teaches at U.C. Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and consults on government relations for Health Net and McGraw-Hill.

Johnston served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1981 to 1990 and the State Senate from 1991 to 2000 where he chaired the Senate Committee on Appropriations for six years. During his twenty-year tenure in the Legislature, he was active in many CFEE programs.

He is also the Vice Chair of the California Bay Delta Authority, the Cal-Fed water management partnership, first appointed by Governor Gray Davis and re-appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A graduate of St. Patrick's College and has a Master's Degree from C.S.U. Sacramento, he lives in Stockton with his wife Margaret Mary Johnston, an attorney and family law specialist. They have two adult sons, P.J. of San Francisco and Christopher of Santa Barbara.