Helen Johnson-Leipold

She is the daughter of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr., who died in 2004, and Imogene Powers Johnson and the great great granddaughter of S. C. Johnson & Son founder Samuel Curtis Johnson Sr. She was elected chairman and CEO of Johnson Outdoors in March 1999,^[1] and she was elected Chairman of Johnson Financial Group in July 2004.^[1]

She began her career at Foote, Cone & Belding in Chicago in 1979 and joined S. C. Johnson & Son in September 1985.^[1] She is tied with her three siblings and mother at #182 on the Forbes 400 list of Richest Americans. Johnson-Leipold was born in Racine, Wisconsin.^[2]

Helen and her husband, Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold maintain residences in Racine, Wisconsin, and Saint Paul, Minnesota, and are the parents of five sons.^[3]