Executives Legend
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J. Lennox Scott

Chair and CEO, 
John L. Scott Real Estate
2025 Rank: 32
The third-generation leader of the brokerage his grandfather founded in 1931, Scott has overseen the Pacific Northwest-based firm since 1980. The company’s more than 2,700 agents at company-owned and franchised offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Northern California, do over $12.5 billion in annual sales. In 2024, the firm settled in Gibson-Umpa for an undisclosed amount. Scott is actively involved in fair housing and diversity initiatives both independently, through the development of his firm’s Partner-up Program to attract individuals of diversity to the industry and through his work with NAR’s Board of Directors.

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