Luci Baines Johnson is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.
Background
She is the younger daughter of United States. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Although her father was a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), her mother was an Episcopalian, and she and her older sister, Lynda Bird, were raised as Episcopalians.
Career
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, Johnson has an older sister Lynda Bird. Johnson had been baptized with water and in the name of the Trinity at five months old by an Episcopal priest in Austin, Texas. She was sixteen when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Johnson heard of the assassination while attending a Spanish class at the National Cathedral School.
She was unaware if her father had been injured as well but realized he had been sworn in as the 36th President of the United States when Secret Service agents showed up on her school campus a few hours later. She received a Bachelor of Liberal Studies in Communication from Saint Edward"s University in 1997.
Membership
She is on the Board of Directors of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation and has served on multiple civic boards, raising funds for The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the American Heart Association, acting as trustee of Boston University, and as a member of the advisory board of the Center for Battered Women.