Christina Bohannan

Christina Bohannan remembers a childhood of Ford trucks, Johnny Cash and Friday nights with takeout chicken and television, growing up in a mobile home in a Florida town of about 700 people.¹ Her father worked in construction and her mother in day care; she paid for school through jobs that included waiting tables, picking fruit and cleaning homes.¹

She became an environmental engineer, then changed direction and graduated first in her law school class at the University of Florida.² After clerking for a federal appeals judge, she joined the University of Iowa, where her work has focused on intellectual property, competition and the First Amendment.³ She raised her daughter in Iowa and served in the state House from 2021 to 2023.¹⁴

Bohannan connects her health care priorities to her father's emphysema and the family's struggle after his insurance was canceled, an experience she describes in her campaign biography.¹ She proposes letting people buy into Medicare at any age while retaining private insurance, extending Affordable Care Act assistance and expanding Medicare's dental, vision and hearing benefits.⁵ Her economic platform also calls for more housing construction, limits on institutional home purchases and a broader $35 insulin cap.⁵

This is her third consecutive general election against Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, following a 2024 contest decided by fewer than 800 votes.⁶ The rematch places competing approaches to health coverage, household costs and the federal government's economic role before southeast Iowa voters.⁵⁶