Isabel Guzman

Isabella Casillas Guzman (born January 8, 1970) is an American government official who served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025. She assumed office on March 17, 2021. She is the fifth Latina woman to ever have served in the Cabinet of the United States.

Early life and education Guzman was born in Burbank, California. Guzman is of Mexican ancestry. She hails from four generations of Texans who originally fled the Mexican Revolution from the states of Aguascalientes and Jalisco. In the 1960s, Guzman's father moved from Texas to Los Angeles.

Guzman received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.

Beginning April 2019, Guzman served as the director of California's Office of the Small Business Advocate, a department within the California Governor's Office of Economic Development.

On January 7, 2021, it was announced that Guzman would be President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for administrator of the Small Business Administration. Guzman was reported out of the Senate Small Business Committee by a 15–5 vote, and confirmed on March 16, 2021, in an 81–17 vote of the United States Senate.