ON THE morning of November 18, Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson presented her credentials as the 14th U.S. Envoy to Jamaica, to Governor-General of Jamaica, Sir Howard Cooke.
Mrs. Johnson, the second female U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica arrived in Kingston on Tuesday, November 15, 2005, succeeding Sue Cobb, who returned home in February of this year.
Ambassador Johnson has been a member of the Duke University Advisory Board of the Nasher Art Museum. She was a founding member, president, and chairman of the Women's Board of the Madison Square Boys' and Girls' Club and continues her affiliation with the Club as a trustee. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed her to the President's Advisory Council to the Arts (PACA) for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and in 2004, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees.
Ambassador Johnson has been a member of the Woodrow Wilson Council since 1999. She also served on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Advisory Board. She has been a member of the National Finance Advisory Council for the George and Barbara Bush Endowment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Ambassador Johnson is married to J. Howard Johnson and has four children and four grandchildren.
