Background
Summerfield Johnston, Junior. was born in 1932 and grew up on the 4,000-acre Bendabout Farm in McDonald, Bradley County, Tennessee. His father, Summerfield Johnston, Senior, worked for the family business.
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Education
He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he played polo in 1951.
Career
He served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises from 1991 to 2001. He joined the Board of Directors of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in 1959. In 1991, he merged it with Coca-Cola Enterprises.
He served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 2001.
Johnston is a left-handed polo player. In the 1950s, he organized polo matched on his family farm in McDonald, Tennessee.
He later founded the Chattanooga Club, later known as the Bendabout Club. He served as the long-time president of the Gulfstream Club in Lake Worth, Florida.
He served as Vice President of the United States Association from 1979-1989, President from 1980-1984 and as Chairman from 1984-1988, and still sits on its Board as a governor-at-large.
He owns the Flying H ranch in Big Horn, Wyoming, home to the Flying H Club, and the Everglades Club in Wellington, Florida. In 1982, he was awarded the Hugo Dalmar Trophy for exemplary sportsmanship. On February 17, 2001, he was inducted into the Museum of and Hall of Fame.
He is a proponent of the return of polo to the Olympic Games.
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Membership
He is a former Board member of SunTrust Bank Banks and SunTrust Bank Bank of Chattanooga, North. A. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and The University of Chattanooga Foundation.
