Notability – In November 2008, 42-year-old Kevin Johnson, former top NBA player, was elected Mayor of his hometown, Sacramento, population of 500,000 and the capital of California. Johnson won election convincingly over incumbent Mayor Heather Fargo.
Johnson was drafted in 1987 by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. He played from 1988 to 1998, and in 2000, for the Phoenix Suns, where he was a three-time NBA All-Star and five-time All-NBA selection.
From 1989 to January 2008, Johnson served as CEO of St. Hope Academy, a philanthropic organization he founded to support public education, civic leadership, community economic development and the arts.
Birth – March 4, 1966 in Sacramento, California to a 16-year-old African-American mother and a young, white father. After Johnson’s father drowned when Kevin was three years old, the future mayor was raised by his maternal grandparents.
Education – Johnson was standout in basketball and baseball at Sacramento High School. He won a college basketball scholarship to University of California, Berkeley, where he played for four years, leaving in 1987 to play in the NBA.
In 1998, Kevin Johnson completed course study, and earned a B.A. in political science from UC Berkeley. In 2000, Johnson graduated from Harvard University’s Divinity School Summer Leadership Institute, a program that prepares students for work in faith-based urban economic revitalization.
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