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, Johnson grew up on a dairy farm in the vicinity of Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He received his early education from a high school in California. Johnson then joined the Army and served a year-long tour in Vietnam which earned him a Purple Heart. In 1972, he bought his own junkyard in Sacramento, California, and moved his family into a trailer to fund his purchase. He took Copart public in 1994. He launched an online bidding platform for wrecked cars in 1998 (or 2002). Willis Johnson retired from his position of CEO of Copart in 2010 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. In 2015, he co-founded now defunct on-demand household chore app, Takl. Political contributions Johnson is politically conservative and supports the Republican Party. Since 2001, he has contributed at least $1.5 million to different conservative causes. In 2019, he contributed $50,000 to the Trump Victory Committee, a political action committee. Together with his spouse, Johnson contributed a total of $700,000 to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. In 2021,