Meet Our Board
Linda Bobo - President
Linda Bobo serves as President-Elect of the Gregg County Republican Women, where she leads with a focus on community outreach, voter education, and strengthening conservative values across generations. Active in the organization for two years and a member of multiple committees, she has helped expand membership, re-engage former members, and inspire younger community involvement. Her leadership emphasizes strengthening current membership, re-engaging former supporters, and advancing the growth, potent… A retired registered nurse and former healthcare business owner, Linda founded and operated a state-licensed, Medicare-certified home health agency serving East Texas. She has long been active in civic and faith-based causes, including Zonta, the American Heart Association, United Way, Habitat for Humanity, and Love Them More—a ministry supporting children entering foster care. Rooted in her Christian faith and strong family values, Linda brings integrity, compassion, and a lifetime of leadership to her role in serving Gregg County and advancing Republican principles.
Teresa Cook - 1st Vice President
I don’t have any ‘political’ experience. I was an Air Traffic Controller for almost 30 years. I married my high school sweetheart and we raised our family together. I’m just doing what I can to make the world a better place for my grandchildren.
Although I’ve never held any sort of positions, we worked hard to get President Regan elected, talking to everyone we knew, knocking on doors, handing out flyers and I’ve been doing that ever since.
We need those high achieving superstars! But even more, we need people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and help in small ways. This organization can help you with that! We will encourage you every step of the way. The best thing you can do is to be proud that you’re a Republican and know how to tell others why in an inviting way.
Teresa Cook
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Tricia Oxton - 2rd Vice President
Patricia (Tricia) Patrick Oxton was born in Longview and her family moved to Garland when she was 9 months old and she later returned to Longview as an adult.
Tricia started college as a Musical Theatre major but soon changed her major to Business. She graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Dallas with Business degrees in Human Resources and Marketing Management in May 1985. One week before her graduation, she married John Oxton after dating him for 5 years.
Tricia’s first jobs out of college were in marketing. First, she was employed as the Division Marketing Manager for Encyclopedia Britannica designing and implementing educational promotions in shopping malls and at the State Fair of Texas, Next, she worked as a Marketing Director / Assistant Manager for a Dallas shopping mall. In 1986, she had her first child- Sarah Beth. In 1988, John, Tricia and Sarah moved to East Texas where John accepted employment at Texas Die Casting, a manufacturing plant owned by Tricia’s family. John subsequently became Vice President of Administration at the company. Tricia became a member of the marketing team at Good Shepherd Medical Center where she created and implemented Classicare- an outreach program for senior adults. In November of 1989, Tricia went to work in her family’s business and subsequently served as Vice President of Human Resources and Safety. She enjoyed designing employee benefit programs, purchasing all insurance coverages, counseling employees, interviewing and onboarding new employees, training the management team, writing company policies and much more. The company employed 180 employees at its largest. Tricia and John enjoyed working together with a wonderful team of employees. The family eventually sold the company in 2007.
In 1990, they had their second child – Tyler David. Tricia was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in 1992 and led her to become disabled in 2002. She was very disheartened at first but soon grew to love having more time to spend with her children and family. She has continued to take life day by day and always kept moving forward. She is very blessed to have six delightful grandchildren who bring immense joy to her life.
Since the 2020 Election, Tricia has been conducting research about our election system and stays up to date on all things political. She has seen proof that the 2020 Election was riddled with maladministration and malfeasance which affected the outcome of the election. While doing research online was good, she decided to get involved locally. In January 2021, she joined the Republican Women of Gregg County and has served as 2nd Vice President – Membership for the last couple of years. She believes that RWGC makes a real difference in informing its members and involving and serving the community with our programs and projects. She has also been pleased to make like-minded friends as a result of her membership in RWGC.
Amy Bridges - Secretary
Bio (Pending)
Jennifer Kranzman- Treasurer
Treasurer Jennifer Kranzman has spent 45 years caring for Gregg County resident through an extensive nursing career. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1976 from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She was president of the Student Nurses Association and charter member of Sigma Theta Tau- Beta Chi Chapter, a nursing honor society. She pursued a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Tyler in 1994 as an Advanced Practice Nurse. She became certified in Diabetes, Foot Care, Brain Injury, Acute Rehab, and Wound, Ostomy and Incontinence. She started many support groups, program startups, health fairs, clinics providing consulting work to hospitals, home health agencies and nursing homes in the area, and recognized in Who’s Who in Nursing, Nurse of the Year, Employee of the Year, and Exemplary Nurse. After retiring from her role as Chief Nurse Officer in Alaska, she returned to Texas in 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and a year into the COVID pandemic. She was given the honor of an Inupiat name of “Kanuk” translated as “gatherer.” A strong believer of faith, family, and freedom, she decided to join the Republican Women of Gregg County to offer her skills in 2021. She was asked to be on the Executive Board, became a Volunteer Deputy registrar for Gregg County, poll worker, trained to be a poll judge for Precinct 18, Newsletter Writer, and Chairman of Political Activities/Get Out the Vote for the club. Jennifer served as President 2023, 2024, 2025 and Treasurer 2026. She is the Chairman of Neighborhood Watch for her neighbors at Lake Cherokee. Her husband Ed of 46 years had moved from designer draftsman in oilfield and designing houses to owning several food service businesses: donut shops, and restaurants. Retirement has allowed Jennifer and Ed to be closer to family, entertaining friends, travel, gardening, volunteer work, walking their English Bulldogs Bonnie and Clyde, and join the Longview Lug Nugs Car club. Jennifer and her husband were heavily involved with the Boy Scouts of America while raising their son’s. Both were Woodbadge Leaders, Boy Scout and Cub Scout Masters, Day Camp Administrators and First Grade Sunday School teachers. Her son Brad Kranzman graduated from Sabine High School in 1998, at Louisiana Tech in Ruston, Louisiana in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Airport Management with a minor in Business and Professional Aviation. He has worked at the East Texas Regional Airport as the Operation Director for 10 years. Her son Kevin graduated from Sabine High School in 2000 and is co-owner of the Southern Supply House, an oil field supply company in Kilgore, Texas for 4 years. He and his wife Crystal have a daughter Jada who keeps her grandparents busy attending her many sporting events for Sabine ISD.
