Kelly Lynn Loeffler (27 November 1970-) was a Republican US Senator from Georgia from 6 January 2020 to 20 January 2021, succeeding Johnny Isakson and preceding Raphael Warnock.
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Kelly Lynn Loeffler was born in Bloomington, Illinois in 1970 and raised in Stanford, and she became a businesswoman and moved to Atlanta to work for Intercontinental Exchange, marrying CEO Jeffrey Sprecher. She and her husband became active donors to Republican candidates, notably supporting Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. In November 2019, she applied to succeed the incumbent US Senator Johnny Isakson after his planned resignation on 31 December, and Governor Brian Kemp chose her over Donald Trump's endorsed candidate Doug Collins. On 4 December 2019, she was selected to succeed Isakson, and her term began on 6 January 2020. She was accused by some of her conservative enemies of being a "closet liberal", but she presented herself as a lifelong conservative who was pro-gun rights, pro-military, pro-border wall, pro-conservative judges, and pro-Trump. In 2021, she was defeated for re-election by Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock in a heated runoff which she lost with 49.6% of the vote to Warnock's 50.4%.