Kristina Knickerbocker

Kristina Knickerbocker followed her grandmother into nursing, paying her way through school with multiple jobs before joining the Air Force.¹ She remembers volunteering at food pantries with her family as a child, and now lives near Yellow Springs with her husband, Bret, and their two young children.¹

The military brought her to the Miami Valley, where she served as a nurse and major with the 88th Air Base Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.¹ She later moved to the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron and worked as an oncology nurse practitioner at Ohio State while serving in the Reserve.¹ Her responsibilities included team leadership on medical care for service members and military families, and preparation for military and humanitarian missions.¹

Knickerbocker says serious complications during pregnancy and her second delivery reinforced her concern about patients being heard by medical professionals.¹ Her congressional platform calls for universal coverage, a public insurance option, protections for existing federal health programs and restrictions on the use of medical debt in credit reporting.² She also proposes a congressional stock trading ban, term limits and limits on former lawmakers becoming lobbyists.²

She is challenging Republican Mike Turner, whose campaign emphasizes national security and Dayton area jobs, while hers stresses health care and affordability.³ She promises to protect and expand Wright-Patterson, fund veterans' care and make companies pay for data center infrastructure rather than passing those costs to households.²