1. Marie Collins Johns was born on August 19,1951 and is an American businesswoman and former civil servant who served as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration.
11 Facts About Marie Johns
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Marie Johns was nominated by President Barack Obama on December 17,2009, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate on June 22,2010.
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Marie Johns made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic party nomination in the 2006 Washington, DC mayoral election.
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Marie Johns was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Howard University in 2013 and from Trinity College in 1999.
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Marie Johns began her career as a secretary and worked her way up to be President and CEO of Verizon, Washington, DC, a $700 million telecommunications company.
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Marie Johns led the efforts of Verizon's predecessor company, Bell Atlantic, to provide a high-speed internet connection to every public school and public library in Washington, DC Johns led the effort to create technology learning centers in each of the city's eight wards and played a key role in securing $10 million in federal funding to implement a school-to-careers initiative.
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Marie Johns is a trustee of Howard University and has served as chair of the Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science, which welcomed its inaugural class of 120 sixth-graders August 29,2005.
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Marie Johns is a former chair of the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington and recently co-chaired a $4 million capital campaign for the Metropolitan Washington Girl Scouts Council.
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Marie Johns is an annual participant in the Girl Scouts Camp.
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Marie Johns is a former chair of Leadership Washington, the DC Chamber of Commerce, and has served as a director of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Economic Club of Washington, the National Capital Revitalization Corporation, and the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation.
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Marie Johns is the Founding Chair of the Washington DC Technology Council and a member of the senior board of stewards of Washington's historic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.