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Today, a quarter century after receiving her Harvard diploma—a diploma she says she has not looked at in 25 years and thinks is at her mother’s residence—Banks-Johnson is the post-production producer of the hugely successful Oprah Winfrey Show...
Though Banks-Johnson enjoys the stability her life now provides, her friends who know her best describe the Harvard Judy as being more of a free spirit...
...Evette Porter-Lipscomb ’79-’81, who lived with Banks-Johnson and Gore in a Matthews Hall triple and then in Leverett House, also calls Banks-Johnson one of her closest friends. She says that Banks-Johnson was in many ways a college student looking to have fun and explore the world...
...Judy was kind of a dreamer type of a person,” says Lynee S. Gore ’79, who was Banks-Johnson’s first-year and sophomore roommate and to this day considers Banks-Johnson her best friend. “She wasn’t like a lot of people in our class at the time that were really, really goal-oriented and knew they wanted to go to grad school and that had their whole life planned out for them...
...enjoyed Harvard very much,” says Banks-Johnson, who recently married Carlos Johnson and added his last name to hers...