Kelly Loeffler
American businesswoman and politician
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| February 20 2025 | Appointed as the 28th administrator of the Small Business Administration. |
| February 19 2025 | The Senate confirmed Loeffler's nomination as Administrator of the Small Business Administration in a 52–46 vote. |
| February 5 2025 | Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship advanced Loeffler's nomination in a 12-7 vote. |
| January 29 2025 | Loeffler appeared before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to discuss her nomination. |
| 2024 | Became a top donor to Donald Trump's presidential re-election campaign, contributing more than $4.9 million. |
| December 5 2024 | President-elect Trump announces Loeffler as the presumptive nominee for Administrator of the Small Business Administration. |
| July 2023 | Joined the board of directors of PublicSquare, an online marketplace targeted towards conservatives. |
| 2022 | Loeffler became a conservative political commentator and continued to be active in Republican political circles after her Senate term. |
| 2021 | After losing her Senate seat, Kelly Loeffler transitioned into a role as part-owner of the Atlanta Dream WNBA team. |
| 2021 | Founded Greater Georgia, an organization aimed at registering conservative voters, expanding conservative messaging, and advocating for voting law changes, personally investing at least $1 million in the organization. |
| February 2021 | Loeffler sold her stake in the Atlanta Dream, partly due to controversies surrounding her stance on the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| January 20 2021 | Concluded her term as U.S. Senator when Raphael Warnock was sworn in, marking the end of her service in the United States Senate. |
| January 7 2021 | Loeffler conceded the Senate race to Raphael Warnock. |
| January 6 2021 | After the U.S. Capitol attack, Loeffler withdraws her objection to the certification of electoral votes and later votes to certify. |
| January 5 2021 | Participated in the Senate runoff election, which determined the completion of her Senate term. |
| January 5 2021 | Loeffler loses the Senate runoff election to Raphael Warnock. |
| January 3 2021 | Loeffler becomes the senior senator from Georgia after David Perdue's term ends. |
| January 1 2021 | Loeffler absented herself from the override of Trump's veto of the defense spending bill. |
| November 2020 | Ran in the special election for her Senate seat against Raphael Warnock, losing the runoff election and ending her brief Senate tenure. |
| November 2020 | Newsweek reported that Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher had a combined net worth of $800 million, making her the wealthiest sitting U.S. senator at that time. |
| November 20 2020 | Loeffler spoke without a mask at a rally in Canton, Georgia, and later tested positive for COVID-19, leading her to cancel future rally appearances and enter quarantine. |
| November 3 2020 | Loeffler finishes second in the Georgia U.S. Senate special election, advancing to a runoff with Democrat Raphael Warnock. |
| October 2020 | After Trump and Melania Trump were diagnosed with COVID-19, Loeffler blamed China for the virus, tweeting that 'China gave this virus to our President' and calling for accountability. |
| September 2020 | Introduced legislation to the Senate floor to bar transgender girls and women from participating in girls' and women's sports, proposing that sex be recognized based solely on reproductive biology and genetics at birth. |
| August 2020 | WNBA players from the Atlanta Dream and other teams responded by wearing 'Vote Warnock' T-shirts in support of Raphael Warnock in the special election. |
| July 2020 | Loeffler wrote a public letter to the WNBA objecting to players wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, stating her opposition to the movement and suggesting they wear American flags instead. |
| June 16 2020 | The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed the complaint against Loeffler, finding no evidence of violations of federal law, Senate Rules, or standards of conduct. |
| May 2020 | Jeffrey Sprecher, Loeffler's husband, donated $1 million to a Trump 2020 reelection super PAC, his largest federal political donation to date. |
| May 26 2020 | The U.S. Department of Justice closed its inquiry into Loeffler's stock trading activities. |
| March 2020 | Claimed the U.S. was 'in the best economic position' to handle COVID-19 and criticized Democrats for 'playing politics' with the pandemic. |
| February 2020 | Publicly stated that Democrats had 'dangerously and intentionally misled the American people on #Coronavirus readiness' and asserted that Americans were 'in good hands with' the Trump administration. |
| January 2020 | Between January 24 and February 14, Loeffler and her husband sold between $1.275 and $3.1 million worth of stock in 27 companies, while simultaneously buying stocks worth between $450,000 and $1 million. |
| January 24 2020 | Loeffler attended a private COVID-19 briefing with the Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions on the same day she and her husband began selling stocks in companies vulnerable to the pandemic. |
| January 6 2020 | Appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Brian Kemp to fill the seat of Johnny Isakson, becoming the junior senator from Georgia. |
| January 6 2020 | Sworn in as a United States Senator, becoming the second female to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate after Rebecca Latimer Felton. |
| December 4 2019 | Appointed by Governor Brian Kemp to fill Johnny Isakson's unexpired Senate term, becoming a controversial choice over Trump's preferred candidate Doug Collins. |
| August 28 2019 | Senator Johnny Isakson announced his resignation from the Senate, citing health reasons. |
| 2018 | Loeffler became the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange. |
| 2014 | Considered seeking the Republican nomination for the United States Senate election in Georgia but ultimately did not run due to Intercontinental Exchange's pending acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 2013 | Loeffler and her husband purchased a $10.5 million estate in Tuxedo Park, Atlanta, which was the most expensive residential real estate transaction in Atlanta at the time. |
| 2011 | Together with Mary Brock, Loeffler bought the Atlanta Dream from Kathy Betty, becoming a full owner of the WNBA team. |
| 2010 | Loeffler purchased a minority stake in the Atlanta Dream, a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team. |
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