Imogene Powers Johnson – Billionaire

Imogene Powers Johnson is the head of the Johnson family. Her husband, Samuel Johnson (d. 2004) ran SC Johnson, the family’s cleaning products company, from 1967 to 2000. Imogene and Sam met at Cornell University and married eight years later. Their Cornell connection remains strong. All four of Imogene and Sam’s children attended the university; the graduate school of business was named after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of SC Johnson; and Imogene is on the board of the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology. Her son Fisk is the chairman and CEO of SC Johnson. Older daughter Helen runs publicly-traded Johnson Outdoors and privately-held Johnson Financial. Younger daughter Winnie is president of the Johnson Family Foundation. Son Curtis is the former chairman of family-owned industrial cleaning firm Diversey. Curtis pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual assault of his stepdaughter in 2014.

Imogene Powers Johnson net worth:Imogene Powers Johnson is an American businesswoman who has a net worth of $2.8 billion dollars. Based in Racine, Wisconsin, Imogene Powers Johnson graduated from Cornell University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree. She married Samuel Curtis Johnson, the former CEO of SC Johnson and Co., and gave birth to their four children. All of their children went on to attend Cornell, as well. Mr. Johnson passed away in 2004, leaving the company to her. Their son, H. Fisk Johnson, is the current CEO. Their daughter, Helen, runs Johnson Outdoors and Johnson Financial. She is the founding director and chairman of the Prairie School, a preparatory school that was originally built to educate the children of SC Johnson workers, but has since grown into its own institution. She donates large sums of money to the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell, which is named after her family.

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