Biography

(March 24, 2006) Gave birth to her 1st child, a son Robert Wood Johnson V, with her boyfriend (now husband) Woody Johnson.

(October 13, 2008) Gave birth to her 2nd child, a son Jack Wood Johnson, with her boyfriend (now husband) Woody Johnson.

(June 4, 2009) Married her longtime boyfriend and father of her 2 sons, 3-year-old Robert V & 7-month-old Jack, Woody Johnson.

On September 11, 2001, Suzanne was in a taxi cab on the FDR Drive heading back to work as equities managing director at Sandler O'Neill in the World Trade Center after an early morning breakfast with a client when the Twin Towers were attacked. Over 75 of Suzanne's co-workers were killed in the attack, including her mentor and leader of the company Herman Sandler.

Suzanne Ircha was born the daughter of a first-generation Ukrainian immigrant father and a second-generation Ukrainian-American mother and grew up in Manhattan's Little Ukraine in the East Village. Her father was an electrical engineer and builder, and her mother was a housewife. She attended Cornell University, where she first majored in engineering, later switching to business. She graduated in 1985 and worked on Wall Street where she was a stocks specialist and made her first million at age 26.