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Kelly Loeffler
Finance executive, former Georgia senator and U.S. small-business administrator
Personal details
- Full name
- Kelly Lynn Loeffler
- Born
- November 27, 1970
- Education
- University of Illinois; DePaul University MBA
- Previous employers
- Intercontinental Exchange; Bakkt
- Political office
- U.S. senator, Georgia (2020–2021)
- Office
- Administrator of Small Business Administration (since February 2025)
Kelly Loeffler is an American financial-services executive, former U.S. senator from Georgia, and administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Finance and technology career
Raised in rural Illinois, Loeffler worked in automotive and finance roles before joining Intercontinental Exchange, where she became an executive in investor relations, communications and marketing. She was founding chief executive of Bakkt in 2018, the digital-asset firm created by ICE. These corporate roles predate her Senate and SBA appointments.
Georgia Senate and political organizing
Loeffler was appointed to Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat in 2020 and served until early 2021. After leaving the Senate she created Greater Georgia Action, a voter-outreach and election-advocacy nonprofit, and RallyRight, a technology venture. Those organizations are separate legal entities and should not be treated as parts of a single organization without records.
Small Business Administration
Trump nominated Loeffler to head the SBA and the Senate confirmed her February 19, 2025. She leads federal small-business lending, contracting and support programs. Her historical ICE/Bakkt positions offer a documented finance-and-technology branch of the Encyclopedia, but should not be automatically ascribed to decisions by current ICE managers.
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- Donald Trump (person) — presidential appointment: Trump nominated Loeffler as SBA administrator and she was confirmed in February 2025 · 2024–2025