Cathy Johnson is the Senior Staff Attorney and North Woods Project Director at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Cathy attended Yale University, then transferred to College of the Atlantic where she received her B.A. in 1974. She worked for the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as for the National Parks Office of Nepal, before going to law school. She received her J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law in 1983 and was a trial lawyer in Damariscotta before joining NRCM in 1990. At NRCM she handles land protection and forestry issues.  She and her partner, the artist and illustrator Jon Luoma, live in Alna. They spend their leisure time hiking and canoeing Maine's North Woods and other less developed parts of the world, gardening, and playing the violin and viola.