for Energy and Environment at the United States Department of Energy with the unanimous consent of the United States Senate. She is the founder of Enduring Hydro, a hydropower-focused energy firm. The firm has a joint venture with the New York City-based private equity firm I Squared Capital (called Cube Hydro Partners), that owns and operates 19 hydropower plants in the Eastern United States. Johnson was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for the development and deployment of liquid crystal on silicon display technologies, the basis for high-speed optoelectronic 3D imaging. Johnson has been a director of Minerals Technologies Inc., Nortel, Guidant Corporation, AES Corporation, and Boston Scientific. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Cisco Systems. In 2019, she resigned from the board of AES Corporation amid criticism of the company's pollution in Puerto Rico. In April 2017 Johnson was appointed chancellor of the 64-school State University of New York, assuming the role in September. On June 3, 2020 it was announced that Johnson would resign from her position at the State University of New York to become the next President of Ohio State University. On November 28, 2022 Johnson announced that she would be resigning from her position of President of Ohio State University at the end of academic year. The resignation came at the request of the university's board of trustees. Personal life Johnson is married to Veronica Meinhard, Founder and President of Juniper Philanthropy Partners. Awards and honors In 1993, Johnson was the first woman to be awarded the International Dennis Gabor Award for creativity in modern optics. In 2003, Johnson was named a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to optoelectronic processing systems and liquid crystal devices". In 2004, Johnson received the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award, the highest honor of the Society. In 2008, she received the John Fritz Medal. In 2010, Johnson was the winner of the ABIE Award for Technical Leadership from the Anita Borg Institute. In 2014, Johnson was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. In 2015, Johnson was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work developing polarization-control technologies. In 2016, Johnson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2017, Johnson was awarded an honorary doctorate by NUI Galway. In 2021, Johnson received the IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal, recognizing outstanding technical contributions in