Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump announced members of his economic advisory team on Thursday, and they include Wisconsin businesswomen Diane Hendricks and Elizabeth Uihlein. Hendricks is the co-founder and chair of ABC Supply Co., a roofing supply firm, while Uihlein is president of Uline Corp., based in Pleasant Prairie.
Both business leaders have been noteworthy financial backers of Governor Scott Walker, with Hendricks giving $5 million and Uihlein $3 million to a super PAC that supported Walker's bid for president. More recently, each has supported the Republican National Committee's efforts to raise money for Trump.
Forbes Magazine listed Hendricks as the country's wealthiest "self-made" woman, with an estimated net worth of nearly $5 billion. She received media coverage for reportedly not paying any state income taxes certain years and for being secretly recorded with Walker when he mentioned dividing and conquering unions.
Uihlein was in the news recently, when it was reported that the Walker administration approved a land swap with her. The DNR gave her less than two acres of what had been public lake frontage in exchange for 40-plus acres of forest land she had bought.
