Kevin M. Johnson
Sacramento Mayor
Mayor Kevin Johnson will be the guest of honor at our Section’s Awards Dinner. Our distinguished guest will help our Section honor the area’s most distinguished engineers and outstanding projects of 2009 along with the winners of the Golzé Scholarship Awards and Student Achievement Awards.
Kevin Johnson was born and raised in Sacramento, and was a star athlete for Sacramento High School in both baseball and basketball. Johnson played basketball at University of California, Berkeley, and spent his collegiate summers playing baseball for an A’s minor league team. Selected 7th in the 1987 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, Johnson’s star quickly rose after being traded to the Phoenix Suns in 1988. KJ was selected to the NBA All-Star team in 1990, 1991, and 1994 and made the playoffs every year of his career after his rookie season. In the 1994 FIBA World Championship Johnson joined the “Dream Team” and led the U.S. National Team to a gold medal. Johnson retired from the NBA after the 1998 season, but briefly returned in 2000 to help the Suns during their playoff run.
After retiring from the NBA, he returned to UC Berkeley to earn a B.A. in Political Science. In his Oak Park neighborhood in Sacramento he became founder and CEO of St. HOPE, a non-profit organization supporting inner-city communities through public education, economic development, civic leadership and the arts. In 2008, Johnson made his first run for public office and won the election for mayor of Sacramento. During his first year in office, Mayor Johnson has made government transparency and accountability a top priority; he has had relative success in addressing public safety and economic development in spite of a budget deficit and poor economy; his initiatives on service and volunteerism have created public-private partnerships that will bode well for the future of Sacramento.
Registration closes Tuesday February 9, 2010 at 11:59 PM
