Janice McNair

$6.2B

as of 10/04/24

About Janice McNair

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 32nd NFL franchise for Houston.

Her son Cal McNair was named the team's principal owner in 2024.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Energy, sports

Residence

Houston, Texas

Marital status

Widowed

Birth date

09/30/36 (age 88)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia College

Self-made

inherited

Janice McNair’s fortune is worth

103K

troy ounces of gold

95K

median U.S. household

62K

median U.S. income

0.124%

U.S. credit card volume

0.025%

GDP of the United States

0.018%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

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.