Timothy R. Johnson is Horace T. Morse Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota. He has published more than 40 articles or chapters about the U.S. Supreme Court and five books including SCOTUS and COVID: How the Media Reacted to the Livestreaming of Supreme Court Oral Arguments (2023), Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court (2012), A Good Quarrel (2009), and Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the U.S. Supreme Court (2001). Findings from his research, along with his legal and political commentary, have been covered by media outlets including The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, C-SPAN, Slate, USA Today, ABC, CNN, and WCCO.

Johnson is also passionate about teaching and advising students. Outside of the classroom he has mentored more than a dozen graduate students and more than 200 undergraduate research projects. In 2018 he was named a semi-finalist for the prestigious Robert F. Cherry Award for Great Teaching and was awarded the American Political Science Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.