Career
The Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary is named in her honor. Colemon was born in Centerville, Alabama on February 18, 1920 but her family moved to Columbus, Mississippi at an early age, and she identified more with that location as her birthplace, leading others to misidentify Columbus, Mississippi as her place of origin. She attended Union Academy High School and graduated from Wiley College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1943.
She then taught at schools in Mississippi and Chicago.
Colemon retired in 2006. She died on December 23, 2014 at the age of 94.