Johnelle Hunt was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. 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 J.B. Hunt Transport Services.
The Lowell, Ark. business went public in 1983 and is now one of the biggest transportation companies in the nation, with $6.6 billion in sales.
Hunt, who stepped down as corporate secretary in 2008, remains the firm's largest individual shareholder with a 17% stake.
In 2014, Hunt donated 6 acres of land to build the Walton Arts Center's Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, an outdoor amphitheater.
Johnelle Hunt is a member of Logistics
💰Johnelle Hunt Net worth: $3.2 Billion (Updated at 22 June 2018)
2009
$1.1 Billion
2010
$1.2 Billion
2011
$1.4 Billion
2012
$1.6 Billion
2013
$2.1 Billion
2014
$2.2 Billion
2015
$2.2 Billion
2016
$2.3 Billion
2017
$2.7 Billion
2018
$3.03 Billion
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Biography/Timeline
2007
She was on the board of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the largest publicly owned trucking company in the US, until 2007, the year after her husband, J.B. Hunt, died.
2015
As of September 2015, she had a net worth of US$2.2 billion.
