Early Life, Education, and Medical Career
Born and raised in Waco, Texas, Johnson's first aspirations were in medicine. She could not attend college in her own state because of her race, so she left Texas and attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she received a diploma in nursing in 1956. She transferred to TCU Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, from which she received a bachelor's degree in nursing. She later attended Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, and earned an MPA in 1976. She served as Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital (the first African American to hold that position), and after 16 years in that position she entered politics.
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