Self-made Billionaire Women

Diane Marie Hendricks is an American billionaire businesswoman and filmmaker from Wisconsin. She was married to now-deceased businessman Ken Hendricks.


Hendricks was born and raised in Wisconsin who was the daughter of dairy farmers. She graduated from Osseo-Fairchild highschool in 1965 and had been divorced from her first husband for ten years when she met Ken Hendricks.


In 1975 she started selling custom-built homes and Ken was a roofing contractor. They married and became business partners. In 1982, they used their lines of credit to secure a loan that enabled them to establish ABC Supply, a company that sells roofing, windows, gutters, and siding for residential and commercial buildings. 


Diane Hendricks owns the Hendricks company and is the owner and chairperson of ABC Supply. In March 2012, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$2.8 billion; Forbes estimated it at $4.3 billion as of January 2017. In 2018, Diane was first America's Richest Self-Made Women considered by Forbes. 


She is a donor to Wisconsin Eye, and co-chair of Rock County 5.0, a five-year public/private initiative to advance Rock County's economic development vision. She has served on the boards of the Stateline Boys & Girls Club, Beloit Memorial Hospital, the Beloit Foundation, Forward Janesville, Kandu Industries, Blackhawk Bank, and the Hendricks Family Foundation. Hendricks serves on the board of trustees of Beloit College

She has produced movies, including The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008), about execution in an Iranian village, An American Carol, (2008), and Snowmen, (2010).

He has seven children and 17 grandchildren and lives in Afton, Wisconsin.


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