Kelly Loeffler

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Kelly Loeffler (2019)

Kelly Lynn Loeffler (born November 27, 1970 in Bloomington , Illinois ) is an American entrepreneur and politician . Loeffler has represented the US state Georgia in the US Senate for the Republican Party since January 6, 2020 . She is standing for re-election in the US Senate in November 2020 .

Life

Kelly Loeffler was born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA and grew up on a soy farm in McLean County . In 1988, she made the final at the Olympia High School in Stanford , where she worked in various sports disciplines. She then enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where she completed her bachelor's degree in marketing in 1992 . While she had worked for the automobile company Toyota , among others , she obtained her Master of Business Administration at the Catholic DePaul University in Chicago in 1999 .

In 2002 Loeffler moved to Atlanta , where she started working for the publicly traded company Intercontinental Exchange . Here she rose to the rank of Vice President. In 2018 she finally became CEO of the subsidiary Bakkt .

In the last few years Loeffler has given more and more financial support to political campaigns. While Democratic Congressman David Scott was among the beneficiaries, it was mostly Republicans who Loeffler supported financially, including Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign committee.

Loeffler already wanted to run for the US Senate in 2014, but withdrew her candidacy for professional reasons. Following the resignation of incumbent US Senator Johnny Isakson and the resulting vacancy, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp named Loeffler as Isakson's successor. She was sworn in on January 6, 2020 in the US Senate and will initially remain in office until the by-election on November 3, 2020, in which she is also running.

Loeffler has been married to Jeffrey Spokesman , Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange , since 2004 . Both live in the suburbs of Atlanta.

Critics accuse her of playing down the COVID-19 pandemic in public and secretly selling shares at the same time.

Web links

• Kelly Loeffler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shane Goldmacher: Kelly Loeffler and Richard Burr Were Briefed on Coronavirus. Then They Sold Stocks. What now? In: nytimes.com . March 20, 2020, accessed on March 21, 2020 . Eric Lipton, Nicholas Fandos, Sharon LaFraniere, Julian E. Barnes: Stock Sales by Senator Richard Burr Ignite Political Uproar. In: nytimes.com. March 20, 2020, accessed on March 21, 2020 . Allegedly illegal stock deals: Head of the US secret service committee resigns from office over FBI investigations. In: Spiegel Online . May 14, 2020, accessed May 14, 2020 .