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AARP Florida State Director Receives Top Honor in Field of Aging at Florida Council on Aging 2017 Annual Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017

CONTACT:   Dave Bruns, 850.228.2759 dbruns@aarp.org

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ST PETERSBURG, Fla. – AARP Florida State Director Jeff Johnson today received a top honor from Florida’s largest aging-service organization, the Florida Council on Aging, at the council’s annual conference in Orlando.

Johnson received the Dr. Carter Osterbind Outstanding FCOA Member award, named for a founder and former president of FCOA.  The award recognizes a Florida Council on Aging member whose actions reflect a high level of personal or organizational commitment on behalf of older Floridians.

“Jeff liberally contributes his time, talent, and treasure, to further the work of FCOA,” wrote FCOA President Susan Ponder-Stansel.  “He works alongside our management staff and Board to ensure we achieve our goals, particularly in advocacy and education. Jeff's contributions to FCOA in many ways mirror those of Dr. Carter Osterbind's in our early decades.”

Osterbind, a University of Florida professor and an expert in demographic studies, played an influential role in the early years of the Florida Council on Aging.  He built a reputation for quiet, effective leadership through building consensus and encouraging political and organizational leaders to take ownership of initiatives to benefit Florida.

Johnson, 48, is a proud lifelong Floridian. He was raised in Jacksonville, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wake Forest University, and also holds a Master of Divinity degree from Emory University's Candler School of Theology.  Jeff joined AARP after working in public relations, marketing and sales, most recently with the Tampa Bay (then) Devil Rays. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife April and daughter Betsy.  Johnson is widely known on social media in Florida policy, political and leadership circles by his Twitter handle @Name_U_Know .

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