Small Business Administration

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Small Business Administration

US Small Business Administration
     409 3rd Street, SW
     Washington, DC 20416

SBA Answer Desk
     1-800-U-ASK-SBA (1-800-827-5722)
     Send e-mails to: answerdesk@sba.gov
     Answer Desk TTY: (704) 344-6640

* http://www.sba.gov/

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“The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation, etc.”

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Senior Staff

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Karen G. Mills – Administrator

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/administrator/index.html

…She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been vice chairman of the Harvard Overseers. …Mills and her husband Barry Mills, president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, have three sons.

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Marie C. Johns
Deputy Administrator

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/MARIE_JOHNS_BIO.html

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Ana M. Ma
Chief of Staff

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SENIOR_STAFF_ANA_M_MA.html

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Eileen Harrington
Chief Operating Officer

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SENIOR_STAFF_EILEEN_HARRINGTON.html

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Eric R. Zarnikow
Associate Administrator, Office of Capital Access

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SENIOR_STAFF_ERIC_ZARNIKOW.html

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Jess B. Knox
Associate Administrator, Office of Field Operations

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SENIOR_STAFF_ERIC_ZARNIKOW.html

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Penny K. Pickett
Associate Administrator, Office of Entrepreneurial Development

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SBA_HP_ABTUS_STAFF_PIKETT.html

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James Rivera
Associate Administrator, Office of Disaster Assistance

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SENIOR_STAFF_JAMES_RIVERA.html

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Joseph G. Jordan
Associate Administrator, Office of Government Contracting and Business Development

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/staff/SENIOR_STAFF_JOSEPH_G_JORDAN.html

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Administrators of SBA

http://www.sba.gov/idc/groups/public/documents/sba_homepage/sba_past_administrators.pdf

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Name : Term : Years/Months

William D. Mitchell	8/1953-10/1953		0/3
Wendell B. Barnes	2/1954-11/1959		5/9
Philip McCallum	11/1959-1/1961		2/2
John E. Horne	2/1961-8/1963		2/6
Eugene F. Foley	8/1963-9/1965		2/1
Bernard L. Boutin	5/1966-7/1967		1/2
Robert C. Moot	8/1967-7/1968		1/0
Howard J. Samuels	8/1968-2/1969		0/6
Hilary J. Sandoval, Jr.	3/1969-1/1971		1/10
Thomas S. Kleppe	1/1971-10/1975		4/9
Mitchell P. Kobelinski	2/1976-3/1977		1/1
A. Vernon Weaver	4/1977-1/1981		3/9
Michael Cardenas	3/1981-2/1982		0/10
James C. Sanders	3/1982-3/1986		4/0
Charles Heatherly (Acting)	4/1986-3/1987		1/0
James Abnor	3/1987-4/1989		2/1
Susan S. Engeleiter	4/1989-1/1991		1/9
Paul Cooksey (Acting)	1/1991-4-1991		0/4
Patricia F. Saiki	4/1991-1/1993		1/9
Dayton J. Watkins (Acting)	1/1993-5/1993		0/5
Erskine B. Bowles	5/1993-9/1994		1/4
Cassandra M. Pulley (Acting)	9/1994-10/1994		0/1
Phil Lader	10/1994-1/1997		2/3
Ginger Lew (Acting)	1/1997-4/1997		0/4
Aida Alvarez	4/1997-1/2001		3/9
John D. Whitmore (Acting)	1/2001-7/2001		0/7
Hector Barreto	7/2001-7-2006		4/11
Steven C. Preston	7/2006-7/2008		2/0
Sandy Baruah (Acting)	7/2008 – 1/2009		0/7
Darryl Hairston (Acting)	1/2009 – 4/2009		0/4
Karen G. Mills		4/2009 – Present