Anne Gittinger | |
Birth Name: | Anne Nordstrom |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | University of Washington |
Known For: | Owner of 11% of Nordstrom |
Spouse: | D. Wayne Gittinger (1933–2014) |
Parents: | Everett Nordstrom |
Children: | 2 |
Relatives: | John W. Nordstrom (grandfather) Bruce Nordstrom (brother) |
Anne Gittinger is an American billionaire heiress, the granddaughter of John W. Nordstrom, the co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain.[1]
She is the granddaughter of the co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain, John W. Nordstrom, and the sister of Bruce Nordstrom, the company's former chairman and CEO.[2] She has a degree from the University of Washington.[3]
Gittinger is Nordstorm's largest shareholder after her brother Bruce Nordstrom.[4]
As of March 2019, she had a net worth of $1.3 billion.
She was married to D. Wayne Gittinger (1933–2014), a pitcher on the Husky baseball team from Kellogg, Idaho. After graduating from UW in 1954 and its law school in 1957, he was a partner in the Seattle law firm Lane Powell and a former Nordstrom director.[5] [3] [6] [7] They had two children, and lived in Seattle.