Rank #530
Janice McNair & family
Net worth $7.3B
Energy, sports · United States
- Born
- Sep 30, 1936
- Age
- 89
- Source
- Energy, sports
- Residence
- Houston, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia College
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.