Deborah L. Johnston, Ed.D.

Interim Dean, Fall 2004, 2005-2006

Deborah L. Johnston, Ed.D., served as interim dean in the School of Education during the fall of 2004 through the end of 2006. 

Johnston is an associate professor in the Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences at Baylor.

Johnston joined the Baylor faculty in 1987 after having taught as a lecturer in Health and Physical Education at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kan. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from Northwest Missouri State University, a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology from Baylor and an Ed.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Arkansas.

Johnston was a Baylor graduate teaching assistant and lecturer in the department of Health and Physical Education and Recreation from 1980 until 1984. She later worked as a graduate teaching assistant in Health and Physical Education at the University of Arkansas until 1987. During her first year back at Baylor, she served as director of the Baylor University Wellness Program.

Johnston is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the Texas American College of Sports Medicine, the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education and Recreation & Dance and the Texas Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation & Dance.

She has published several articles in such publications as the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and The Journal of Human Movement Studies. Her projects in progress included one on the effects of creatine on the performance of college football athletes.