26/10/2020
Number one for the third year in a row: roofing entrepreneur Diane Hendricks, who cofounded ABC Supply and helped grow it into one of the largest U.S. wholesale distributors of roofing, siding and windows. She is worth $8 billion, up from $7 billion a year ago. Behind her at No. 2 is Judy Faulkner, who launched medical-records software firm Epic in 1979. She moves up from number 4 thanks to a $1.9 billion increase in net worth to a recent $5.5 billion.
List members range in age from 23 (Kylie Jenner) to 94 (life sciences mogul Alice Schwartz). They hail from all over the U.S., but are heavily concentrated in California where 45 live. Fortunes were calculated using stock prices from September 11, 2020.