Janice McNair & family
$7.3B
Born
Sep 30, 1936
Age
89
Source of Wealth
Energy, sports
Residence
Houston, Texas
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Widowed
Children
4
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia College
- Janice McNair, widow of Bob McNair (d. 2018), inherited her late husband's 80% stake in the NFL's Houston Texans.
- The couple met at Columbia College in South Carolina in the late 1950s and moved to Houston. Together they had four children and 16 grandchildren.
- Bob made his first fortune selling his power generator company Cogen Technologies to Enron for $1.5 billion in 1999.
- With the proceeds of Cogen's sale, he paid $700 million that year for the NFL's 32nd franchise.
- Her son Cal McNair was named the team's principal owner in 2024.
- The Houston Texans, the youngest franchise in the NFL, was worth $2.8 billion when Bob McNair died in 2018, more than four times what he paid in 1999.
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