Linda Marie McMahon serves as the 13th United States Secretary of Education, having been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on November 19, 2024, and sworn into office on March 3, 2025. Prior to this, she served as the 25th Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) from 2017 to 2019 during the first Trump administration. She was confirmed by the U.
S. Senate on February 14, 2017, and stepped down in April 2019 to work on President Trump's re-election campaign.