Rank #605
Johnelle Hunt
Net worth $6.6B
Trucking · United States
- Born
- Jan 04, 1932
- Age
- 94
- Source
- Trucking
- Residence
- Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Drop Out, University of Central Arkansas
Net worth over time
Biography
- In 1961, Johnelle Hunt and her late husband J.B. (d. 2006) sold their home and took out loans to start a rice hull packaging operation.
- Eight years later, the couple bought five trucks and seven trailers to launch trucking firm J.B. Hunt Transport Services.
- The Lowell, Arkansas, business went public in 1983 and is now one of the biggest transportation companies in the nation, with $12.1 billion in sales.
- Hunt, who stepped down as corporate secretary in 2008, remains the firm's largest individual shareholder, with a 19% stake.
- She donated $5 million to the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Center, which opened in Springdale, Arkansas in 2020.
- The daughter of a poultry business owner, Hunt studied to be a teacher at University of Central Arkansas before leaving to marry J.B.
- Hunt was a part of the 11 inaugural inductees to the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame, which opened in 2015.
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