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Linda McMahon

Secretary of Education

Linda McMahon is the 13th U.S. Secretary of Education, sworn in on March 3, 2025. She was Administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019 and earlier was chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Background

Biography

Linda McMahon was born in North Carolina; the White House biography says she is from New Bern. She graduated from East Carolina University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in French. She was president and later chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment. Her Department of Education biography says she served on the Connecticut State Board of Education and on the Board of Trustees of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

McMahon ran for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2010 and 2012. She served as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019. She later chaired the America First Policy Institute and was co-chair of President Trump's 2024 transition team.

She was sworn in as the 13th Secretary of Education on March 3, 2025.

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