Kendra Scott

In April 2020, Governor Greg Abbott named Scott to the Strike Force to Open Texas – a group "tasked with finding safe and effective ways to slowly reopen the state" amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

As of the end of 2019, Scott has 102 retail stores. In addition to an e-commerce business, Scott's merchandise is also sold in London's Selfridges, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Von Maur, Bloomingdale's and over 1,000 specialty boutiques worldwide. 95 percent of her more than 2,000 staff are women.

In 2019, Scott donated $1 million to The University of Texas to launch the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute.

In 2019 she became the 12th woman in the state who has been inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame.

In 2017, Scott’s company hosted more than 10,000 Kendra Gives Back across her stores. She gave the money for local causes and also donated more than 75,000 pieces of jewelry.

Scott was awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 National Award and the Breakthrough Award from the Accessories Council Excellence Awards. She is listed as #40 in Forbes' list of America's Richest Self-Made Women 2019, been named Outstanding Mother of the Year by the Mother's Day Council, Texas Businesswoman of the Year by the Women's Chamber of Commerce, Top 100 Entrepreneurs of the Year by Upstart Business Journal and 2017 CEO of the Year by the Austin Business Journal.

In 2016 Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm, invested more than $1 billion in the company.

In 2015, Scott launched the Kendra Cares Program, which brings the company's customizable Color Bar jewelry experience to pediatric hospitals across the country.

In 2011 she opened her second store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, but she had to close it after a while. In 2014 Scott opened stores around the South and Midwest, while ignoring the fashion elite in New York and Los Angeles. Later, in 2016, she sold a minority stake of her company to the private equity firm Berkshire Partners at a valuation of §1 billion.

Scott's first retail store opened in Austin on the Austin´s South Congress Avenue in 2010. In the same year, she began her e-commerce business and launched the brand's Color Bar experience.

Since 2010 her company´s program has given away $30 million.

Because of the financial crisis in 2009 she nearly had to close her company.

In 2005, Scott's designs were chosen to accessorize Oscar de la Renta's Spring 2006 Runway Show. Scott's designs also appeared in Randolph Duke's 2007 runway show.

Scott founded Kendra Scott LLC in 2002, designing her first collection with $500 in the spare bedroom of her home just after her oldest son was born. She walked store to store around Austin, selling to local boutiques, and at the last boutique she had to sell all of her samples to purchase enough materials to cover the orders she had made that first day.

Kendra Scott, née Baumgartner married John Scott on June 24, 2000. They had two children but divorced on August 22, 2006. Scott remarried on June 6, 2014 to Austinite Matt Davis in Sedona, Arizona and have one child together.

Kendra Scott (born March 27, 1974) is an American fashion designer. She is the chairman, CEO, and lead designer of Kendra Scott, LLC. In 2017 she was named Ernst & Young's National Entrepreneur of the Year.