Bill Haslam Net Worth

CelebrityNetWorth lists Bill Haslam’s net worth at $2.1 billion in a profile dated 3 November 2026. The entry still describes him as governor of Tennessee, an office he left in 2019.

The money is family money from the Pilot truck stop group. Public salaries from the mayor’s office and the governor’s mansion were small next to it.

Pilot Corporation, parent of the Pilot Flying J travel center chain, is the core asset. His father founded it, Haslam worked there from his school years and became president in 1995.

The family sold in stages to Berkshire Hathaway, which took majority control in January 2023 and bought the remaining 20 percent in January 2024. He added the Nashville Predators in July 2025.

Haslam graduated from Emory University and returned to Knoxville to learn the family business, then decided to stay rather than enter the ministry. From 1999 to 2001 he was chief executive of the e-commerce and catalog division at Saks Fifth Avenue.

He was mayor of Knoxville from 2003 to 2011 and governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019. The Pilot stake, not the offices, produced the fortune.

We use the CelebrityNetWorth estimate dated 3 November 2026 and list the parts it covers for readers. Berkshire Hathaway has not disclosed what it paid for each tranche of Pilot, so the family share is an estimate rather than a published figure.

The Predators stake was acquired in stages from 2022 and completed in July 2025. Its value is private, and nothing in the CelebrityNetWorth entry separates it from the Pilot proceeds.