Linda McMahon

Born:October 4, 1948 (age 75)
Career:Administrator of the Small Business Administration, 2017-2019
Party:Republican
Education:B.A., East Carolina University

Linda McMahon was the administrator of the Small Business Administration under the Trump administration from Feb. 14, 2017 to April 12, 2019. She resigned to chair the America First Action PAC, a pro-Trump super PAC.

McMahon was born October 4, 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in 1966. After graduation, McMahon worked as a paralegal at a corporate law firm. In 1980, McMahon and her husband co-founded Titan Sports, Inc. (now WWE, Inc.), and she served as president and later CEO until 2009.

McMahon was appointed to the Connecticut State Board of Education by Governor Jodi Rell in 2009, but resigned in 2010 to run for political office. In 2010 and 2012, McMahon was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut, losing in the general election both times. In 2016, she was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Connecticut and a member of the RNC Rules Committee.

Sources:

Ballotpedia (n.d.). Linda McMahon. Retrieved on May 14, 2020, from https://ballotpedia.org/Linda_McMahon.

Linda E. McMahon, CEO, World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved on May 14, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20091128025642/http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/LMcMahonBio.pdf.

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