Jeff E. Johnson

Jeff E. Johnson's real estate career began in 1988 when he joined McKellar Development of La Jolla, Inc. Since then, he has participated in scores of major real estate transactions involving 1000’s of attached and detached homes and apartments, millions of square feet of office and industrial developments, and several major land subdivisions.

Mr. Johnson oversees all legal and transactional affairs of the company and serves in a project management role, involving him in all aspects of acquisition, finance, entitlement, design, development and sale.

He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980 and in 1983 earned a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law. He clerked for the California Court of Appeal and worked at Gray Cary Ames & Frye from 1984 to 1988, primarily in real estate.

He currently volunteers as a Judge Pro Tem in the San Diego County Superior Court, on the Board and Finance Committee of Kitchens For Good (an innovative social enterprise working with at-risk populations in food production, culinary training, and productive use of food that would otherwise go to waste), and on the Board of Project Mercy (building homes for the working poor in Tijuana, Mexico). Mr. Johnson is a member of the California State Bar and is a licensed California real estate broker.