Peter J. Johnson, Jr., has served as a legal analyst for the FOX News Channel since 1997.

Johnson, a trial and appellate lawyer, is the president of Leahey & Johnson, P.C., a Wall Street law firm that specializes in litigation and appeals.

A well-known authority on jurisprudence and government, Johnson serves as chairman of the New York Appellate Division, Committee on Character and Fitness in Manhattan. He is also a member of New York State's Judicial Screening Panel. Recently, he served as a senior research fellow at the Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

After the 2000 presidential election, Governor George Pataki appointed Johnson chairman of the New York State Task Force on Election Modernization. In government, he served as senior adviser to Mayor David N. Dinkins and senior vice president of the New York State Urban Development Corporation.

Johnson is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University's School of Law.