Norma Lerner (nee Wolkoff, born 1935/36) is an American billionaire, 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. He was also a past presid ...

, 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 May 2022, her net worth was estimated at US$1.1 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 a nonprofit American academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation established in 1921, it runs a 170-acre (69 ha) campus in Cleveland, ...

, co-founder of the Lerner Research Institute, and founder of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

Personal life

In 1955, she married

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

Randy Lerner Randolph David Lerner (born February 21, 1962) is an American billionaire investor and former sports-team owner. He became the majority owner of the American football team, the Cleveland Browns, of the National Football League, upon the death of h ...

, 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 Temple Tifereth-Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Beachwood, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. It was founded in 1850 as Tifereth Israel (Glory of Israel) and was a founding member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now the Union for Ref ...

in Cleveland. Lerner is widowed, and lives in

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

, Ohio.

References

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