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- JUDY LOVE
$2.9 billion
AGE: 82 RESIDENCE: Oklahoma City
SELF-MADE SCORE: 9
She and her husband Tom’s Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores
opened 35 new locations in 2018 and plans to open 40 more this
year. Their first store opened in 1964 when they leased an aban-
doned gas station in Watonga, Oklahoma. Her husband is execu-
tive chairman; she’s the executive secretary. - THAI LEE
$3 billion
AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: Austin, Texas
SELF-MADE SCORE: 9
Revenue of SHI, the IT provider she runs, reached $10
billion for the first time in 2018. SHI, which has 15,000-plus
customers (including AT&T and Boeing), also broke ground
on a new regional headquarters in Austin and is building
a second data center in New Jersey. The South Korean
immigrant and her now ex-husband purchased a software
reseller that later became SHI for nearly $1 million in 1989. - JUDY FAULKNER
$3.6 billion
AGE: 75 RESIDENCE:
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
Faulkner is CEO and founder
of Epic, a $2.9 billion
(revenue) medical software
company that is used to
store the records of 250
million patients. A computer
programmer, Faulkner
founded Epic in 1979 in the
basement of an apartment
building in Madison. She’s
run the company ever since
and never taken outside
funding. In 2015, Faulkner
signed the Giving Pledge
and said she will eventually
donate most of her stake to a
charitable foundation. - LYNDA
RESNICK
$2.8 billion
AGE: 76
RESIDENCE: Beverly Hills
SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
With husband Stewart, Res-
nick co-owns the Wonderful
Co., the $4.6 billion (reve-
nue) maker of Fiji Water and
POM Wonderful pomegran-
ate juice. Both previously di-
vorced, they met in the 1960s
when she provided market-
ing help for his burgeon-
ing alarm business. They
also own 135,000 acres of or-
chards in Texas, Mexico and
California’s Central Valley,
where they grow pistachios,
almonds, pomegranates and
mandarin oranges. - DORIS FISHER
$2.7 billion
AGE: 87
RESIDENCE: San Francisco
SELF-MADE SCORE: 7
Fisher founded Gap with
her late husband, Don, in - She and her three
sons still own stakes in the
$16.6 billion (revenue) retail
group, whose shares dropped
roughly one fourth in the
last year. It is planning to
spin off Old Navy into its
own publicly traded entity,
but will still hold the Banana
Republic and Athleta brands. - JOHNELLE HUNT
$2.7 billion
AGE: 87 RESIDENCE:
Fayetteville, Arkansas
SELF-MADE SCORE: 7
Hunt is chairperson of
investment firm Hunt
Ventures, which broke
ground on a $100 million, 16-
acre retail-and-residential
project in northwest
Arkansas in early 2019. Her
fortune comes from her
17% stake in publicly traded
trucking company J.B. Hunt
Transportation Services,
started by her and her late
husband, J.B., in 1969.