Willis Johnson

Willis J. Johnson (born 1947) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chief executive of Copart, a vehicle salvage and auction company, founded in 1982.

Biography

Born in 1947 in Clinton, Oklahoma, Johnson grew up on a dairy farm in the vicinity of Siloam Springs, Arkansas. July 2021.

Political contributions Johnson is politically conservative and supports the Republican Party.

In 2021, he donated $1 million to South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to fund a National Guard deployment to the Texas/Mexico border.

Assets In 2010, he bought an 18,600 square foot mansion in Nashville for $28 million from American country singer Alan Jackson.

Johnson also owns a 79-acre vineyard in Suisun Valley, California.

His son-in-law, Jay Adair, is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Copart, and owns shares in the company worth more than $800 million.

His grandson is TN General Assembly member, State Representative Jake McCalmon, a Republican in Williamson County.