Loeffler, Kelly, 1970-

Kelly Lynn Loeffler (born November 27, 1970) is an American businesswoman and politician, who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021. A Republican, Loeffler was previously chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of commodity and financial service provider Intercontinental Exchange, of which her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is CEO. Until February 2021, she co-owned the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Born iun Bloomington, Illinois and raised in Stanford, Illinois, Loeffler graduated with a Bachelor of Science in marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's Gies College of Business in 1992, later earning a Master of Business Administration in international finance and marketing from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. After earning her MBA, Loeffler worked for Citibank, William Blair & Company, and the Crossroads Group. In 2002, she joined Intercontinental Exchange, a commodity and financial service provider, in investor relations. In 2018, she became the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange.

Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, appointed Loeffler to the Senate in December 2019 after Republican senator Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons. Loeffler ran in the 2020 Georgia U.S. Senate special election, seeking to hold the Senate seat until January 3, 2023. She finished second in the November 3 election, advancing to a runoff with Democrat Raphael Warnock held on January 5, 2021. She lost the runoff election to Warnock. She has been floated as a candidate to run against him in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia. In the same election, her fellow Georgia senator, David Perdue, also lost. When Perdue's term ended on January 3, 2021, Loeffler ascended to be the "senior senator" from Georgia, an honor she held for just under three weeks, until Warnock was sworn in.

After the November 2020 election, Loeffler and fellow Georgia senator David Perdue claimed without evidence that there had been "failures" in the election, and called for the resignation of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who rejected the accusations. She later supported a lawsuit by Trump allies seeking to overturn the election results, and also announced her intention to object to the certification of the Electoral College results in Congress. After the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Loeffler announced that she would withdraw her objection to the certification of the electoral votes. The same evening, she voted to certify the presidential election.