Kim Ng was the Vice President and Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2001 to 2011. On March 8, 2011, she was named Senior Vice-President of baseball operations for Major League Baseball. On November 13, 2020, she was named General Manager of the Miami Marlins, becoming not only the first woman to be a General Manager in Major League Baseball, but the first in North American men's sports. Of Vietnamese origin, Ng was born in Indianapolis, IN but grew up in Queens, NY. The oldest of five girls, she attended the University of Chicago where she played softball and obtained a bachelor's degree in public policy. She applied for a variety of sports-related jobs after graduation and was accepted for an internship with the Chicago White Sox in 1991. To her surprise, she ended up in the baseball operations side of the business, and not in marketing, where she had expected to work. White Sox GM Dan Evans was impressed by her analytical ability and attention to detail. He quickly pegged her as someone who could aspire to senior positions, and he took her under his wing. In 1997, she took a job with Major League Baseball as director of waivers and records for the American League office. This allowed her to meet all of the league's GMs, including Brian Cashman of the New York Yankees, who was so impressed with her that he hired her as Assistant General Manager in 1998. At the time, Kim was the youngest Assistant General Manager in the game. She was the second woman to have the title of Assistant General Manager. In 2002, her former mentor Evans, now GM of the Los Angeles Dodgers, lured her away from the Yankees. She finally was appointed to the top job in 2020, when the Marlins selected her to replace General Manager Michael Hill. Her appointment was extremely well received as many pointed out that Ng's credentials were impeccable and that she would likely have acceded to the GM ranks years earlier had she not been a woman, and a member of a racial minority. When team President Derek Jeter stepped down unexpectedly a little over a year later, in February of 2022, she took on even more responsibility, overseeing all baseball matters for the team. In March 2023, she was one of 27 persons appointed by President Joe Biden to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition. The Marlins had a successful season in 2023, making it to the postseason as a wild card team, but Ng decided to decline a mutual option for 2024 over differences with the team's ownership group.

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