Good Wood

REVIEW SUMMARY
Individual. Ann Jackson, CEO, Rockler Woodworking and Hardware
Industry. Retail, hardware
Key. Jackson has been at the helm of her family's woodworking supply business since 1985.

In what was mostly an idyllic childhood, one memory sticks out for Ann Jackson, back in 1958 when she was 8 years old.

That was when she got her first job at her father's mail-order woodworking supply business in Minneapolis. Her father, Nordy Rockler, launched the business in 1954. Four years later he needed someone to open envelopes.