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{{short description|American engineer and miss USA winner}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name=Bobbi Johnson
| image=Bobbi Johnson Miss District of Columbia.jpg
| caption=Johnson, as Miss District of Columbia USA, after Miss USA 1964 semifinals
| title=[[Miss District of Columbia USA|Miss District of Columbia USA 1964]]<br />[[Miss USA 1964]]
| nationalcompetition=[[Miss District of Columbia USA|Miss District of Columbia USA 1964]]<br />(Winner)<br />[[Miss USA 1964]]<br />(Winner)<br />[[Miss Universe 1964]]<br />(Top 15)
| birth_place= [[Alexandria, Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|03|24}}
}}

'''Barbara Joan "Bobbi" Johnson'''<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss USA: Real Name's Barbara|publisher=The Pittsburgh Press|first=Vince|last=Leonard|url=https://news.google.co.nz/newspapers?id=w3sbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Pk8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7475,5646404&dq=miss-usa+bobbi-johnson&hl=en|date=1965-05-13}}</ref> (born March 24, 1945) is an American former computer application engineer and beauty pageant titleholder who held the [[Miss USA]] 1964 title and has competed in the [[Miss Universe]] pageant.

After winning the [[Miss District of Columbia USA]] crown, Johnson went on to become the first representative from the [[District of Columbia]] to achieve the title of Miss USA, at age 19.  She would be the only titleholder from the District until [[Shauntay Hinton]] won the crown in 2002. Johnson went on to compete in the [[Miss Universe 1964]] pageant, where she made the semi-finals.

Johnson later worked as an applications engineer in the computer department of [[General Electric]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.missusa.com/history/timeline/pops/1964.html|title=Bobbie Johnson official profile|publisher=Miss Universe Organization|accessdate=2007-01-26|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061014211803/http://www.missusa.com/history/timeline/pops/1964.html|archivedate=2006-10-14}}</ref> to program [[GE-400 series|GE 400-series]] and [[DATANET-30]] computer systems.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://thecomputerboys.com/?p=717|title=Your Career in Computer Programming {{!}} The Computer Boys Take Over|website=thecomputerboys.com|date=23 February 2015 |access-date=2016-08-06}}</ref> She was interviewed about her career choice in the book ''Your Career in Computer Programming'' published in 1967.<ref name=":0" /> In the book, she explained how after winning her Miss USA title she was asked by reporters what career ambition she had: "I guess they thought I’d say something like modeling or becoming an actress, but I said the first thing that popped into my head: that I wanted to be a computer programmer…".<ref name=":0" /> The book also includes side-by-side photographs of her as Miss USA and at her console as an applications engineer a few years later.

Bobbi later returned to school and would graduate magna cum laude from [[North Central College]], receiving a degree in accounting. After passing the [[Certified Public Accountant]] exam she worked in tax accounting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raytownschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=1590&ViewID=ed695a1c-ef13-4546-b4eb-4fefcdd4f389&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=1413&PageID=1498|title=Bobbi Johnson Kauffman|publisher=Raytown School District|access-date=2023-08-20}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060918200625/http://www.missusa.com/ Miss USA official website]
*{{YouTube|id=gDE4hLOuQmo#t3m15s|title=WNAC-TV, Boston - Promotional television interview}} with actor [[Marlon Brando]]

{{Miss Universe 1964 delegates}}
{{Miss USA titleholders}}
{{Miss Universe Organization titleholders
|Year = 1964
|Miss Universe= {{flagicon|Greece}} [[Corinna Tsopei]]
|Miss USA= {{flagicon|District of Columbia}} '''Bobbi Johnson'''
}}
{{District of Columbia Pageant Winners}}
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[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:American computer programmers]]
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[[Category:Miss Universe 1964 contestants]]
[[Category:Miss USA 1960s delegates]]
[[Category:Miss USA winners]]
[[Category:People from Alexandria, Virginia]]
[[Category:20th-century American people]]


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