<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001225208-20-000539.txt : 20200106
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001225208-20-000539
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20191227
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200106
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200106

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Decker Robert J
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001798703

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-03215
		FILM NUMBER:		20510554

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE JOHNSON & JOHNSON PLAZA
		CITY:			NEW BRUNSWICK
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08933

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			JOHNSON & JOHNSON
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000200406
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
		IRS NUMBER:				221024240
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NJ
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1229

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE JOHNSON & JOHNSON PLZ
		CITY:			NEW BRUNSWICK
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08933
		BUSINESS PHONE:		732-524-2455

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE JOHNSON & JOHNSON PLZ
		CITY:			NEW BRUNSWICK
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			08933
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        <footnote id="F1">Shares held in the Johnson &amp; Johnson Stock Fund under the Johnson &amp; Johnson Savings Plan as of the Plan's most recent reporting date (12/31/2019).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Shares held by ESOP under the Johnson &amp; Johnson Savings Plan as of the Plan's most recent reporting date (12/31/2019).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Vested and exercisable on the third anniversary of the date of the grant.</footnote>
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    <remarks>deckerpoa1.txt</remarks>

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<TEXT>
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Corporate Officer

	Know all persons by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
  appoints each of Matthew Orlando, Renee A. Brutus, Michelle R. Ryan, Linda E.
King and Maria A. Frucci, signing singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as a corporate officer of Johnson & Johnson (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in
  accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended,
and the rules thereunder (the "Exchange Act") and Form 144 in accordance with
Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act");

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, 5 and
144 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission
and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the
documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such
terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted,
as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and
the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
  with Section 16 of the Exchange Act or Rule 144 of the Securities Act.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file reports pursuant to Section 16 of the
Exchange Act with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of the date set forth below.


	/s/ Robert J. Decker
	Robert J. Decker
	Date:     December 9, 2019



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