Kelly D Johnston

Johnston served as secretary of the Senate under then-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R), and has been with Campbell’s since 2002. He oversees the soupmaker’s trade associations and lobbies the U.S. government on trade and agricultural dealings. Johnston also held several administrative positions with the Republican Party and also was a communications executive for the National Food Processors Association, Johnston joined NFPA in 1996, serving as the trade association’s chief federal and state legislative and political affairs representative and chief media spokesperson. From 1995 to 1996, he was Secretary of the U.S. Senate, the Senate’s chief legislative, financial and administrative officer. Johnston has also served as Staff Director of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and in various Senatorial and Congressional committee functions, including Deputy Political Director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 1989 to 1991. Johnston earned his B.A. from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in 1976.