Marie Johns

Marie Johns
Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration
In office
June 22, 2010  April 2013
PresidentBarack Obama
AdministratorKaren Mills
Preceded byJovita Carranza
Succeeded byAlthea Coetzee
Personal details
Born
Marie Collins Johns

(1951-08-19) August 19, 1951
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materIndiana University Bloomington (B.S., MPA)

Marie Collins Johns (born August 19, 1951) is an American businesswoman and former civil servant who served as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2009, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate on June 22, 2010. Johns is a former president and CEO of the telecommunications company Verizon. She made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic party nomination in the 2006 Washington, D.C. mayoral election.