Jenell Ross, president of Bob Ross Auto Group in Centerville, Ohio, is a trailblazer and influential dealer in her own right.
The second-generation retailer became the first Black dealer to chair the American International Automobile Dealers Association in 2013 and she chaired the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cincinnati branch. She also sits on other boards of companies such as Cars.com, even as she advocates for the development of more women and minorities as both dealers and employees in retail automotive.
But it was her parents, Bob and Norma Ross, who first trod the career path that Jenell has traveled.