Southlake Woman Honored

Southlake author and mother, Jen Geigle Johnson, has been featured in Society Life Magazine as one of the most “inspirational, accomplished and engaging women in Northeast Tarrant County.” Johnson, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was nominated along with nine other women by her local community and Society Life readers.

For years, Johnson and her family have been active in local community service organizations such as Mercy House, Gatehouse, The Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County, The Shamba Foundation, and Mothers Without Borders. She has a deep love for serving women and girls, both locally and abroad, and dedicates hours each week toward bringing others joy.

“I strive to live by the example of Jesus Christ in the New Testament when He said, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ When I fall short of that goal, I work to follow the number one rule in the Johnson house, which is to be kind,” Johnson says in the article.

“I feel so honored that anyone would think that I am inspirational, accomplished or engaging! I am thrilled to have been chosen because it gives me the opportunity to highlight important organizations like The Union Gospel Mission. I also loved the opportunity to talk about my faith! I was incredibly humbled to be nominated, and when I saw that last year’s nominees were women of great influence and goodness, I felt even more so,” Jen says of the honor.

Jen is also a founding member of the Lonestar.Ink Writing Conference, which encourages others to develop their writing ability and to think responsibly about what they print. She is a published, award-winning author and has recently released her second book, Scarlet, which has been nominated for a Whitney Award. Her first novel, The Nobleman’s Daughter, was published in 2017. It won the gold medal for the Fiction Romance category in the 2017 Foreword Indies National Writing Contest.

Johnson is modest about her nomination to this illustrious list of women, but her kids are cheering her on. “Just be you, mom, that’s amazing,” said her daughter of the honor. Johnson has a few more books in line for publication, but she has a deeper motivation as well. “I would like to do more to create community despite differences,” she says.

“I see far more in common with my fellow humans than I see to divide us. We don’t have to be the same to be one.”

You can read the full article in Society Life Magazine, here.