ArcBest President, CEO and Chairman of the Board Judy McReynolds was included on the prestigious 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50 Entrepreneurs list, along with NASA executives and CEOs of major defense industry companies.
The entrepreneurial segment was part of a broader list of women, including U.S. Supreme Court Justices Kentanji Brown Jackson, Sandra Bullock, San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly, Dolly Parton, and Tina Turner. Other notables on the entrepreneurial list include Foot Locker CEO Mary Dillon, Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub, NASA Deputy Administrator girlfriend Pamela Melroy, and General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic. .
“Not everyone on our 50 Over 50: Entrepreneurs list is a founder, but they all take an entrepreneurial approach to disrupting businesses ranging from manufacturing to technology to healthcare. ‘, points out Forbes. the entrepreneur list.
McReynolds was appointed President and CEO of Fort Smith-based ArcBest in 2010 and has served as Chairman since April 2016. She is the accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP.She serves on the Board of OGE Energy Corp., First Bank Corp., her First National Bank of Fort Smith, and the Transportation Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
“It is an honor to be recognized on this year’s Forbes list and we are deeply grateful for the recognition it brings to our organization and the transportation and logistics industry. The contributions of will have a profound impact on our world, now and in the future.
In December 2021, he was ranked #26 on the Best CEOs list, which recognizes the top 100 most acclaimed CEOs in large companies. This list is based solely on the opinions of female employees.McReynolds recently named to the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Research Alliance. She was also one of the 2018 Women in Business in the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal.
Forbes also said, “McReynolds leads ArcBest’s 14,000 employees across 250 campuses and service centers.”
ArcBest, the parent company of ABF Freight, one of the nation’s largest truck carriers, is on pace to exceed $4 billion in annual revenue for the first time in its nearly 100-year history. Net income for the first half of 2022 was $172.03 million, up 104% from $84.342 million for the same period in 2021.
The publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ARCB) is expected to report its third quarter numbers on November 1, before the market opens.