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Glory Johnson

Glory Johnson is vice president of Rapidtext, a leading developer of voice-to-text applications. Johnson co-founded Rapidtext in 1988, and today oversees operations of the company. Johnson is also heavily involved in sales of captioning and timecoding services to the entertainment and Internet industries. Previously she worked at StenoCAT, a court reporting software company and served as international sales manager and advisory board member, involved in product development and key customer relations.

Johnson also managed her own court-reporting firm from 1979 until merging the company into a legal services consolidation company in 1997. She specialized in applying the latest technology to deliver unique capabilities with her court reporting services. Before starting her own court-reporting firm, she worked as a court reporter in the Greater Los Angeles Area Superior and Municipal Courts and taught classes at South Coast College of Court Reporting.

Johnson's previous employment includes managing the Southern California Office of the Maritime Trades Commission and as the assistant to one of the head publicists at Universal Studios, working with campaign advertising, trade paper releases and public relations. Johnson is a founding director of the D.E.A.F. Foundation, and was previously a member of several technology committees of the National and California Court Reporters Association. She has also worked with the State of California on court reporting standards and issues and has been a speaker on real-time applications for continuing education credits for national, state and international organizations.

Johnson graduated from Whitley College of Court Reporting and holds a degree from South Coast College of Court Reporting. She also studied at Orange Coast College.