Jeannie Cullen-Schultz

After planning most of her life to be a college basketball coach, Jeannie Cullen-Schultz decided that while she loved the game, she did not want to make it her career. After discussions with her father, Mark, and several women in construction, she finished her educational leadership thesis while working on her second master’s degree in construction management and returned to her family’s business, JP Cullen in Janesville, Wis., as a fifth-generation owner and created the general contractor’s health care division. She was committed to making a difference for other women in construction. She and her brother, George, have since become co-presidents of JP Cullen and lead the company with advice and input from their father, other-fourth generation owners and their fifth generation cousins.