Lukas Walton

Lukas Walton is the only child of John T. Walton (1946–2005) and his wife Christy Walton. He grew up in National City, California, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.^[2] His father, John T. Walton, died in a plane crash in 2005. Following his father's death, he moved with his mother to Jackson, Wyoming.^[3]

When he was three years old, Walton was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer, and his mother attributed his recovery to a plant-based remedy from her garden.^[4]

He has a bachelor's degree in environmentally sustainable business from Colorado College, where he graduated in 2010.^[2][5]

He went on to work at True North Venture Partners.^[6]

He is the environment program committee chair for the Walton Family Foundation.^[3]

In 2020, Walton gave $5,600 to the Biden campaign and $142,000 to the Democratic National Committee.^[7]

Walton lives in Jackson, Wyoming^[8] and Chicago.^[9] He is married to Samantha Walton,^[10][11][12] who is listed as the co-president with Lukas Walton in the Builders Initiative, which is a Walton family foundation.^[13]

In 2022, Walton was ranked 106th in the Forbes annual list of the world's billionaires with a net worth of $16.5 billion.^[14] In 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at $28 billion, ranking him as the 60th-richest person in the world as well as the richest person in the state of Illinois,^[8][15] which he had previously been in 2020^[9] and 2023.^[16]