Leslie Jackson Chihuly is one of the most popular and richest Chief Executive Officer who was born on May 1, 1961 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. Jackson Chihuly was conceived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1961. She is the daughter Royal C. Jackson (a mechanical engineer) and Jo Morgan Jackson (an educator and volunteer). She has a younger brother and two older sisters. Royal C. Jackson died in 1993. Jo Morgan Jackson died in 2003. Jackson Chihuly was born in Amarillo (Texas) and Guymon (Oklahoma).
Jackson Chihuly was married to Dale Chihuly in 2005. They have one son.
Together, Jackson Chihuly and her husband founded the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation in 2009 to fund public education regarding all forms of art, and to provide support to artists and arts organizations. The Chihulys are involved with numerous nonprofit and philanthropic organizations both locally and nationally, with a focus on health, education, music and the arts. Their foundation’s beneficiaries include Artist Trust, Hilltop Artists, Path with Art, the Hotshop Heroes program at the Museum of Glass and an artist lecture series at the University of Washington. In addition, the Chihulys have provided support to JDRF, Seattle International Film Festival, Mary’s Place, Seattle Arts and Lectures, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and KEXP-FM.
During her 20s – in the 1980s and early 1990s – Jackson Chihuly travelled throughout Europe, India, Thailand and China. She served as a production assistant on the PBS film “Democracy in Action,” a humorous take on American elections that featured Frank Zappa and Timothy Leary and aired in the United States and in Russia in 1992.
Jackson Chihuly was a student at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She graduated in 1993 with a MA in international studies. She spent her time in Moscow, Russia and interned at Moscow State University.
