Linda Marie McMahon is an accomplished American business executive and politician.
She co-founded the sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) with her husband, Vince McMahon, and served as the company’s chairman and CEO from 1980 to 2009.
In addition to his business endeavors, McMahon has had a distinguished career in public service.
She served as the 25th Administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
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- Full name: Linda Marie Edwards
- Stage Name: Linda McMahon
- Date of birth: October 4, 1948
- Age: 75 years old
- Place of birth: New Bern, North Carolina, United States.
- Nationality: Welsh-American
- Occupation: Former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
- Height: 1.67 m
- Parents: Evelyn Edwards and Henry Edwards
- Siblings: Unknown
- Spouse: Vince McMahon (married 1966)
- Children: Shane McMahon and Stephanie McMahon
- Relationship: Married
- Net worth: $37 million
Early life and education
Linda Marie Edwards was born on October 4, 1948, in New Bern, North Carolina, United States. She is the daughter of Evelyn and Henry Edwards and is an only child. Her parents were both employees of the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, a military base.
Edwards attended Havelock High School and then attended East Carolina University in 1966. At East Carolina, she earned a bachelor’s degree in French and a teaching certificate. Ethnically, Linda Marie Edwards is Welsh-American. Religiously, she is Roman Catholic.
Career
Linda McMahon’s career began as a receptionist and paralegal at the law firm Covington & Burling in the 1960s, where she also worked on intellectual property. In 1980, she co-founded Titan Sports, Inc., which later became World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
McMahon became chairman of the company in 1993 and CEO from 1997 onwards. Under McMahon’s leadership, WWE experienced tremendous growth and transformed the wrestling industry, leading some observers to regard her and her husband Vince as “business geniuses”.
In 2009, McMahon resigned as CEO of WWE to run for the United States Senate as a Republican candidate from Connecticut. Despite stepping down as CEO, McMahon retained a minority ownership stake in WWE.
Linda McMahon and her husband, Vince McMahon, founded the sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.). She served as chairman and then CEO of WWE from 1980 to 2009.
In 2009, McMahon left WWE to run for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut as a Republican. However, she lost the 2010 general election to Democrat Richard Blumenthal. She ran as a Republican for Connecticut’s other Senate seat in 2012 but lost again, this time to Democrat Chris Murphy.
On December 7, 2016, then-President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate McMahon to serve as Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Senate confirmation hearings began on January 24, 2017, and on February 1, her nomination was approved by the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
Social media
- Instagram Username: @_lindamcmahon
- Facebook Name: Linda McMahon
- Twitter Username: Linda McMahon
Personal life
Linda McMahon is the wife of Vince McMahon, a famous American professional wrestling mogul. The couple met in church when Linda was 13 years old, and Vince was 16, when Vince was known as Vinnie Lupton. They were introduced by Vince’s mother and married on August 26, 1966, in New Bern, North Carolina.
Vince and Linda McMahon have two children together – Shane McMahon, who left WWE in 2010 but returned in 2016. Stephanie McMahon remained active behind-the-scenes and on-screen with the company from the 1990s until her resignation in 2023. At some point before 2022, Vince and Linda McMahon separated, but they did not divorce.
Net worth
Linda McMahon is an American business executive and politician with an estimated net worth of $37 million. She has amassed this wealth primarily through her successful career in the entertainment industry and as a business executive.
