Kelly Loeffler, who was a senator for Georgia, has been selected to become the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
Establishing connections to agriculture is a stretch; her biography says she grew up on a farm in Illinois and was a 4-H club member and had some tenuous connections to agriculture economic legislation.
She is loyal to President-elect Donald Trump and is co-chair of his inauguration committee.
Trump's previous agriculture secretary was Sonny Purdue, also from Georgia.
Loeffler was chief executive officer of Bakkt, a subsidiary of commodity and financial service provider Intercontinental Exchange, of which her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is CEO.
She is a former co-owner of the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and a Masters of Business Administration from DePaul University.
