Stephanie Bice

Stephanie Bice was born in Oklahoma City and married Geoffrey in 1996; the couple has two daughters.¹ A Putnam City High School graduate, she earned a marketing degree at Oklahoma State University in 1995.¹ She spent eight years working in finance and marketing at her father's technology company before becoming a digital marketing agency's vice president of business development.¹

First elected to the state Senate in 2014 and reelected in 2018, Bice chaired its Finance Committee and served as assistant majority floor leader for two years.¹ She was principal Senate author of a 2019 law adding informed consent protections for nursing home patients prescribed antipsychotic medication.² Her successful 2020 House bid unseated Democrat Kendra Horn.¹

In Congress, Bice serves on Appropriations and House Administration and chairs the Modernization and Innovation subcommittee.³⁴ Her appropriations assignments cover labor, health, education, military construction, veterans affairs, transportation, housing and related federal agencies.³ She introduced the More Paid Leave for More Americans Act in 2025, proposing federal grants for state family leave programs and an Interstate Paid Leave Action Network.⁵

Her agenda also emphasizes veterans' resources and restraining government spending.⁶ She faces Democrat Jena Nelson and independents Robert P. Henri and Austin Nieves for Oklahoma's Fifth District seat.⁷