1. Sheila Crump Johnson was born on January 25,1949 and is an American billionaire businesswoman, co-founder of BET, and CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts.
14 Facts About Sheila Johnson
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Sheila Johnson is CEO of Salamander Hospitality, a company she founded in 2005.
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Sheila Johnson was born on January 25,1949 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a neurosurgeon father who worked for the Veterans Administration and an accountant mother.
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Sheila Johnson is of Italian, German, and African American descent.
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Sheila Johnson is a Global Ambassador for CARE, a humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
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Sheila Johnson's initiative called Sheila's I Am Powerful Challenge was created to support the empowerment of women in fighting poverty and it raised over $8 million in 2007.
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Sheila Johnson serves as chair of the Board of Governors of Parsons The New School for Design in New York and funded the opening of the Sheila C Johnson Design Center, combining classrooms, public program spaces and galleries.
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Sheila Johnson sits on the boards of VH1's Save the Music Foundation, Americans for the Arts, the School of Education and Human Development Foundation at the University of Virginia, and the University of Illinois Foundation.
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Sheila Johnson is the Ambassador for the Healthy Site Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity.
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Sheila Johnson served as one of 237 executive producers on her second film, A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
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For 33 years from 1969 to 2002, Sheila Johnson was married to Robert L Johnson.
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In 2007 Sheila Johnson was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History" for her career and her contributions to society.
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Sheila Johnson is a Democrat, although in 2009 she endorsed Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell.
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In early October 2009, Sheila Johnson mocked the stutter of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds at a rally for McDonnell's campaign.