Thomas Johnson (December 29, 1808 – March 25, 1878)^[1][2] was chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1845 to 1852.

Born in Maryland,^[1][3] Johnson moved to St. Louis, Missouri in the autumn of 1834 and to Batesville, Arkansas in January, 1836.^[1]

In 1840, the Democratic Party-dominated legislature elected Johnson to be chief justice following the expiration of Judge Daniel Ringo's term. Ringo was a Whig.^[3] Soon after his seating on the supreme court, he moved to Little Rock.^[1] Johnson served as chief justice until 1852. In 1877, he died at his home in Little Rock, at the age of 69.^[2][3]

He was a tall, darkhaired, thin, "dry man, of great honesty and uprightness of character".^[3]