Small business administration

United States Small Business Administration
State level	Federal authority
founding	1953
Headquarters	Washington, DC
Authority management	Jovita Carranza
Servants	approx. 3,300 (2015)
Web presence	sba.gov

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) (German: US authority for small businesses) is a US federal agency to support small and medium-sized businesses .

Foundation and tasks

The SBA was founded in 1953 by the Small Business Act . It is their task to strengthen the national economy by advising and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises both during their establishment and during their day-to-day operations and protecting their interests. It is also their job to support economic recovery after a disaster. This is done through advice, the granting of loans and guarantees, as well as the mediation of orders by federal authorities.

The SBA publishes a table of standards for enterprise sizing according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Here, the boundary between small and medium-sized companies and large companies is defined for each industry .

Authority management

The head of the authority is appointed by the President and must be approved by the Senate. In the Obama and Trump cabinets the heads are cabinet members.

Beginning	The End	Surname	president
August 1, 1953	October 30, 1953	William D. Mitchell	Dwight D. Eisenhower
February 9, 1954	November 21, 1959	Wendell B. Barnes
November 23, 1959	January 20, 1961	Philip McCallum
2nd February 1961	7th August 1963	John E. Horne	John F. Kennedy
August 8, 1963	September 10, 1965	Eugene P. Foley	Lyndon B. Johnson
May 19, 1966	July 31, 1967	Bernard L. Boutin
August 1, 1967	July 31, 1968	Robert C. Moot
1st August 1968	22nd February 1969	Howard J. Samuels
March 5th 1969	1st January 1971	Hilary J. Sandoval Jr.	Richard Nixon
18th January 1971	October 12, 1975	Thomas S. Kleppe	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
February 12, 1976	March 4th 1977	Mitchell P. Kobelinski	Gerald Ford
April 1, 1977	January 20, 1981	A. Vernon Weaver	Jimmy Carter
March 30, 1981	3rd February 1982	Michael Cardenas	Ronald Reagan
March 29, 1982	March 31, 1986	James C. Sanders
March 23, 1987	April 20, 1989	James Abdnor
April 20, 1989	March 27, 1991	Susan Engeleiter	George Bush
March 27, 1991	January 20, 1993	Patricia Saiki
May 12, 1993	October 6, 1994	Erskine B. Bowles	William Clinton
October 8, 1994	February 11, 1997	Philip Lader
March 7, 1997	January 20, 2001	Aida Alvarez
July 25, 2001	July 2, 2006	Hector V. Barreto Jr.	George W. Bush
July 10, 2006	June 5, 2008	Steven C. Preston
April 6, 2009	September 1st 2013	Karen G. Mills	Barack H. Obama
April 7, 2014	20th January 2017	Maria Contreras-Sweet
February 14, 2017	April 12, 2019	Linda McMahon	Donald J. Trump
January 15, 2020	officiating	Jovita Carranza

Web links

Commons : Small Business Administration  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• SBA website
• SBA table of standards for small and medium-sized businesses

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SBA table of size standards for small and medium-sized businesses
2. ↑ Linda McMahon steps down from SBA to head super PAC. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .