Terri Green

Terri Yarbrough Green likes RV trips, the Grand Canyon and making crocheted blankets for her six grandchildren.¹ A retired physician, mother and stepmother, she also shares her home with three rescue dogs and a cat.¹ She was born in El Paso and adopted by a World War II Navy veteran and his wife.¹

Green initially planned a legal career after graduating from Baylor, then changed direction and earned a medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.² She became a pathologist and moved to northeast Arkansas in 1988.²

Her work included serving rural hospitals as a pathologist and laboratory medical director, alongside nurses, administrators and laboratory technologists.¹ After retiring, she expected to travel more, but decided to enter politics when she saw no Democrat challenging the incumbent.² She has not previously held elected office.² Her platform also calls for investment in roads, bridges, broadband, public schools and utilities that support rural communities.¹

Green supports restoring enhanced Affordable Care Act insurance assistance and moving toward universal healthcare.³ She also wants Congress to reclaim war powers and tariff authority, arguing that the Iran conflict and broad tariffs raise costs for households and farmers.³ She faces Republican Rick Crawford and Libertarian Steve Parsons.⁴