Mellody Hobson is an American businesswoman with a net worth of $100 million. Mellody Hobson gained global attention in 2013 when she married millionaire filmmaker George Lucas. Mellody is the president and co-CEO of Chicago-based Ariel Investments, and she formerly served as DreamWorks Animation’s chairwoman.
Hobson was appointed vice-chair of the Starbucks Corporation board of directors in 2018 and promoted to non-executive chair in 2021, making her the first Black woman to chair an S&P 500 (Standard and Poor’s 500) corporation.
Who is Mellody Hobson married to?
Mellody Hobson started dating George Lucas in 2006 after meeting him at a business convention, and they were engaged in early 2013. They married on June 22, 2013, at Skywalker Ranch, and their daughter Everest was born on August 9, 2013, via surrogate.
Mellody is the stepmother of Amanda, Jett, and Katie Lucas. George adopted Amanda with his first wife, Academy Award-winning editor Marcia Lou Griffin, and then adopted Katie and Jett on his own following their divorce in 1983. In August 2017, the City of Birmingham celebrated Hobson on the “Jack Good Show” for her work with the charity Birmingham’s Bright Leaders of Tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Mellody was born on April 3, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois. Mellody has five older siblings and attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory. After graduating in 1987, Hobson attended Princeton University, where she joined the Cottage Club, one of several eating clubs on campus. She graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1991, and in 2019, the school honored her with the Woodrow Wilson Award during Alumni Day. In 2020, Mellody and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation gave cash to Princeton to “establish a new residential college at Princeton University.”
The residential college will be named Hobson College and will be built on the location of what was previously known as Wilson College. In June 2020, Princeton’s Board of Trustees agreed to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from campus buildings owing to his “racist views and policies.”
Mellody described her time at Princeton as follows: “No one in my family had graduated from college when I arrived from Chicago, but even as I looked up at buildings named after Rockefeller and Forbes, I felt at home.” I hope that my name will serve as a reminder to future generations of kids, particularly those who are Black and brown and the ‘firsts’ in their families, that they, too, belong.
In 2017, she became the first African-American woman to serve as chair of The Economic Club of Chicago. Hobson has been a financial contributor on “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning,” as well as the host and executive producer of the 2009 ABC special “Un-Broke: What You Need to Know About Money.”
Mellody has been named to “Ebony” magazine’s “20 Leaders of the Future” list (1992), “Esquire” magazine’s “America’s Best and Brightest” list (2002), the “Wall Street Journal’s” “50 Women to Watch” list (2004), and “Time” magazine’s list of “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” (2015).
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