Carnahan named as GSA chief

President Joe Biden said he would nominate Robin Carnahan, former Secretary of State of Missouri, to lead the General Services Administration.

      Carnahan is from a prominent political family in Missouri. Her grandfather, mother and brother all served in Congress, and her father was governor of Missouri.

      In 1990, she joined a team working to improve democracy in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Under President Clinton, she served as a special assistant to the chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

      She was first elected as the Secretary of State in Missouri in 2004. She served for 9 years overseeing elections, regulating state securities and leading technology initiatives.

      She joined the GSA from 2016 to 2020, leading the state and local practice of the 18F digital services unit.

      Carnahan also has worked as a strategic consultant and has run her family’s farm and Angus cattle ranch in Missouri. She has a B.A. in economics from William Jewell College and received her law degree from the U. of Virginia.

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