Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston is an Assistant City Attorney with the City and County of Denver. As in-house counsel for the Department of Aviation, Daniel focuses on all aspects of real estate for Denver International Airport, including leasing, land use, and renewable energy. Prior to working with the City and County of Denver, Daniel worked in several law firms in Boston where he frequently negotiated and drafted purchase and sale agreements and licensing applications and appeared before municipal licensing boards.

During law school, Daniel interned with both the Office of the General Counsel for the Boston Planning & Development Agency and the Environmental Crimes Strike Force in the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. Prior to law school, Daniel served in the Obama Administration as the Acting Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Land & Water Ecosystems at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and interned with both U.S. Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-CA-36) and U.S. Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA).

Daniel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Japanese History from the University of Pittsburgh and a Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law.