James Cox Kennedy (born 1948) is an American media executive and the current chair of Cox Enterprises, the media conglomerate founded by his grandfather, James M. Cox. According to the Forbes billionaires list from 2017, he is the 105th richest person in the world, the thirty-seventh richest person in the United States, and the richest person in the state of Georgia, surpassing his aunt, Anne Cox Chambers, for the title