Norma Lerner (née Wolkoff, born 1935/36) is an American

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

, the widow of

Al Lerner Alfred Lerner (May 8, 1933 – October 23, 2002) was an American businessman. He was best known as the chair of the board of credit-card giant MBNA and the owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He was also a past ...

, who was the founder of the credit card company

MBNA MBNA Corporation was a bank holding company and parent company of wholly owned subsidiary MBNA America Bank, N.A., headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to being acquired by Bank of America in 2006. History The former Maryland National ...

. As of July 2024, her net worth was estimated at US$1.2 billion.

Early life

She was born Norma Wolkoff, and married Al Lerner in 1955.

Career

From 2006 to 2011, she was a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and a member of its executive committee. She is chair and president of the Lerner Foundation, director of the

Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic is an American Nonprofit organization, nonprofit Academic health science center, academic Medical centers in the United States, medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an O ...

, co-founder of the Lerner Research Institute, and founder of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

Personal life

In 1955, she married

. They were married for 47 years and had two children, business executive

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, and Nancy Lerner.CBS Sports: "Browns owner Lerner dies at 69"
October 23, 2002McGeehan, Patrick ( April 9, 2004)

''The New York Times''. The Lerners were members of

Temple Tifereth-Israel The Temple Tifereth-Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "Glory of Israel") was a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 26000 Shaker Boulevard, in Beachwood, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The synagogue was ...

in Cleveland. Lerner is widowed, and lives in

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, Ohio.

References

1930s births Living people American billionaires 20th-century American Jews American businesspeople People from Cleveland Lerner family 21st-century American Jews Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-business-bio-1930s-stub